Task-1-Google-Scholar
In my first post I would like to share with you a summary of the article “Sound Symbolism” written by John J.Ohala published on Google scholar. You can access it at ( https://bit.ly/2yaA10S ). I have chosen this article because its theme is one of the most recent themes I have had on Theoretical Phonetics lecture. In this article John J. Ohala first gives a definition of the term “sound symbolism” and flicks through its history and mentions Socratus who debated the “issue of whether the names for things are arbitrary or whether instead they are a natural reflection of the things named ” with his disciples. Next, he communicates the idea of existence of “similar sounds associated with similar meanings” in a number of languages which are not connected genetically or areally In the following chapters and attempts to prove it by giving quite a detailed description of such phenomena as “...