Kumagai Gakuji
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kumagai Gakuji plays a role.
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2020 What’s in a villain’s name? Sound symbolic values of voiced obstruents and bilabial consonants Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 428–457 | Article
This paper reports two case studies of sound symbolism using the naturalistic name corpora of characters from Disney and Pokémon. Building upon previous studies of sound symbolism, we tested two hypotheses: (1) voiced obstruents, which are generally associated with negative images, are favored… read more