Conative “kisses” in human-to-animal communication-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Conative “kisses” in human-to-animal communication

Published:2024-05-01 Issue:1 Volume:20 Page:103-129
ISSN:1895-6106
Container-title:Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
language:en
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Author:

Andrason Alexander¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages , Salem , MA , USA

2. Center for African Studies , University of Cape Town , Cape Town , South Africa

Abstract

Abstract The present article offers the first systematic scholarly analysis of ConKisses, i.e., a sub-class of conative animal calls (i.e., directives addressed to animals) that draw on speech kisses (i.e., sounds that are made with a kiss-like articulatory mechanism). The author examines the pragma-semantics, phonetics, and morphology of ConKisses in 50 languages within a prototype-driven approach to categorization and concludes the following: ConKisses comply with the features associated with the prototype of a conative animal call and may therefore be regarded as the prototype’s canonical instantiations – in fact, they constitute the most canonical subset within the entire conative-animal-call category and thus a highly extra-systematic one from sentence-grammar’s perspective.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lpp-2024-2001/pdf

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