SOUND SYMBOLISM AND SYMBOLIC SOUND METAPHOR

Abstract

Symbolic sound metaphor based on sound symbolism is considered and its role in creation of new words is emphasized. The article aims to consider symmetry of sound iconic relationship between the meaning of a word and its sounds due to sound symbolism. The purpose of the paper is to point out processes, approaches, psychological and psycholinguistic experiments that can be applied to examine it. The modern classification of sound symbolism (corporal sound symbolism, imitative sound symbolism, synesthetic sound symbolism and conventional sound symbolism) is presented to identify the major one in creating symbolic sound metaphor. The most frequent phonosemantic means are analyzed to acquire the symbolic sound value of amplifying phonosemantic sound tonality in the text. The peculiarities of symbolic sound metaphor, the main means of representing sound tonality, is identified in the article to clarify the essence of sound tonality, which is treated as a linguistic category of expressing and evaluating. Thus it proves the necessity of further investigation in this field.