ideophones is the figure of speech that uses words that imitate the sounds they refer to.
ideophones is the figure of speech that uses words that imitate the sounds they refer to.
which figure of speech uses words that imitate the sounds they refer to?
ideophones
some languages possess a category of words midway between onomatopoeia and usual words. whereas onomatopoeia refers to the use of words to imitate actual sounds, there are languages known for having a special class of words that "imitate" soundless states or events, called "phenomimes" (when they describe external phenomena) and "psychomimes" (when they describe psychological states). on a scale that orders all words according to the correlation between their meaning and their sound, with the sound-imitating words like "meow" and "whack" at one end, and with the conventional words like "water" and "blue" at the other end, the phenomimes and the psychomimes would be somewhere in the middle. in the case of the japanese language, for example, such words are learned in early childhood and are considerably more effective than usual words in conveying feelings and states of mind or in describing states, motions, and transformations. they are not found, however, only in children's vocabulary, but widely used in daily conversation among adults and even in more formal writing. like japanese, the korean language also has a relatively high proportion of phenomimes and psychomimes.
sound symbolism
competing for the first seat in the 2nd and 6th "arrondissements" of libreville, eyeghé ndong and mba abessole faced each other again in the december 2006 parliamentary election. thus eyeghé ndong, the prime minister, challenged mba abessole, who was deputy prime minister. eyeghé ndong was victorious, winning 66.52% of the vote. eyeghé ndong submitted the resignation of his government to bongo on january 19, 2007, observing a constitutional requirement that the government resign after the results of a parliamentary election were announced by the constitutional court. on january 24, bongo asked eyeghé ndong to form a new government, and eyeghé ndong accepted; the composition of the new government was announced on january 25, with few changes. a new government under eyeghé ndong was named on december 28, 2007, with its size reduced from 50 to 41 ministers.
jean eyeghé ndong