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THE SEMANTICS OF EVALUATION IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ICONICITY

THE SEMANTICS OF EVALUATION IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ICONICITY


Author:  Shamina E.A.

Affiliation:  St.-Petersburg State University

Abstract:  The results of a series of psychological experiments on perception of sound symbolism in foreign expressive words by speakers of English and Russian point to a direct correspondence between the phonetic meaning and the semantics of evaluation. Listening to the experimental material, the respondents seem to use different perceptual strategies and demonstrate different sound – meaning associations in accordance with the evaluative connotation the experimental words are supposed to have.

Keywords:  sound symbolism, perception, emotional evaluation, intellectual evaluation

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Pages:  308-310

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