Abstract
Abstract
Ideophones and direct quotations are “depictive” signs, or vivid re-enactments of what they signify. Pursuing the
typology of linguistic depiction, the current study proposes a three-way classification of depiction marking strategies: framing,
foregrounding, and backgrounding. While well-known formal characteristics of ideophones, such as prosodic prominence and quotative
constructions, illustrate framing and foregrounding, this paper discusses low-pitched quotative indexes in Japanese as
backgrounding-type depiction markers. These quotatives immediately follow ideophones and exclamatory quotations and set them off.
They also underlie the exceptional pitch pattern of heavy syllables in ideophones.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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