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Звук и емоция в лексикографията
Sound and Emotion in Lexicography

Identification and Lexicographic Registration of Vocal Gestures

Author(s): Katerina Tomova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: vocal gesture; interjection; sound; emotion; lexicography; pragmatics
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the concept of vocal gesture – its nature and characteristics. Initially, it offers an analysis of some theoretical problems related to the identification of vocal gestures in a literary text. Thereafter, the main vocal gestures that are present in the lexicographic metalanguage used in the vocabulary description of interjections in the compiled Czech-Bulgarian dictionary of interjections are described. The argument charters and emphasizes the expediency and relevance of pragmatic information in such dictionaries.

  • Page Range: 523-531
  • Page Count: 9
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Bulgarian