Mimetic words and lexicalization patterns in a Japanese novel and its English translation / Ng Kar Pek

Sound symbolic words exist in a wide variety of languages in the world, featuring a special class of words that shows a direct linkage between non-lexical sounds and meanings, recognized as mimetic words in Japanese. Generally, these mimetic words imitate the sounds of humans, animals, motions and n...

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Main Author: Ng , Kar Pek
Format: Thesis
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10547/
http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10547/2/Ng_Kar_Pek.pdf
http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10547/1/Ng_Kar_Pek_%E2%80%93_Dissertation.pdf