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).
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 structurali...
Otto Jespersen was the most influential figure in the field of Englishphilology from 1909, when he published Sounds and Spellings, Vol. Ⅰofhis A Modern English Grammar, to the posthumous publication of Syntax ⅡVol. ...