Sources of Otto Jespersen＇s Sound Symbolism From Various Disciplines： A Case of Linguistic Historiography  

作　　者：QU Chang-liang 

机构地区：[1]Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2018年第4期628-634,共7页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

基　　金：Acknowledgement： This paper is part of the Project ＂A Study on Otto Jespersen＇s Ideas of Phonological Evolution （ 1886-1941 ）＂, supported by National Social Science Foundation of China （16BYY007）.

摘　　要：Despite its role in literature, especially in poetics, sound symbolism does not traditionally enjoy a high esteem in linguistics. Ever since the scientific study of language was revolutionized by the Swiss structuralist pioneer Ferdinand de Saussure, sound symbolism tended to be restricted to some peripheral linguistic phenomena. The present essay is an interpretation of first-hand texts. It explores the development of the linguistic idea of sound symbolism scattered in the both linguistic and non-linguistic texts published in German, French, English and other languages. These texts are found to suggest that Saussure was not the only scholar interested in this sound-sense relationship in his age, nor was his idea of arbitrariness the final word on it. The author concludes that a study on the history of sound symbolism has to be accomplished with a trans-disciplinary perspective and the support of multi-lingual texts.

关 键 词：sound symbolism ARBITRARINESS linguistic texts non-linguistic texts 

分 类 号：TP391.2[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] TP332[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]