What is the connection between names of sounds
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Co łączy nazwy dźwięków ze świadomością językową?
What is the connection between names of sounds and language awareness?

Author(s): Piotr Kładoczny
Subject(s): Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: language awareness; name of sound; vocabulary; sociolect; valuating;

Summary/Abstract: Names of sound can be used to assess language awareness. Their psycholinguistic aspect isobserved in the case of teaching small children language. The second aspect is descriptive and regis-tering in nature, and is related to the knowledge of words. Some names of sounds take on a stylisticcharacter and their use is sometimes assessed by others. Names of animal sounds that have a second-ary reference to humans have a negative character, as do names of sounds that are used secondarilyas speaking names. The sociolinguistic aspect is associated with the names of sounds typical of cer-tain backgrounds and used in a certain geographical area. The last manifestation of linguistic aware-ness regarding the names of sounds is related to communicative and discursive usage, i.e. applied toparticular situations, persons, and a subject matter of an utterance. One can also see a manifestationof creative activity of people in the area of sound names. Artists and creative individuals not onlyuse well-known names of sounds, but they also create completely new ones.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 55-74
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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