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The article offers a phonosemantic analysis of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” The phonosemantic investigation has been based on the corpus of nineteen relevant sound-related descriptions of the sea. Although most excerpts identified contain aural metaphors and are not phonologically iconic per se, there seem to exist at least three fragments which are particularly interesting from a phonosemantic point of view. Most notably, phonaesthemes /gl/, /l/, /r/ have been found to carry substantial meaning contributing to the overall interpretation of the story in question. Accounting for the inevitable subjectivity concerning iconicity, and in this case phonological iconicity, a few theories are presented in order to support the author’s reading of each phonaestheme’s contextual significance. The paper briefly reviews the chronological development of the field of phonosemantics and then combines the aural images theory (proposed by Richard Rhodes) with the “aural semiotic process” theory (the term coined by the author). Each analysis is further supplemented with scholarly views on respective phonaesthemes. On the whole, the paper does not aim to polemicize with the well-established definition of a phoneme and its generally accepted arbitrariness. Nevertheless, it has been observed that a speculative phonosemantic analysis of a literary work may yield noteworthy results.
Bohemistyka
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2023
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issue 1
39-54
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The paper introduces the concept of phonaesthemes and discusses its relevance for linguistic theory, subsequently trying to identify initial phonaesthemes in Czech consisting of at least two consonants. The sequence /chr-/ seems to be a prototypical phonaestheme in Czech. As only one other sequence (/hň-/) appears to be reliably identifiable as a phonaestheme, it seems that phonaesthemes are not particularly common in Czech, when compared e.g. with English. However, this conclusion might not be warranted if less strict criteria for defining phonaesthemes were applied. The importance of further research into phonaesthemes and sound symbolism in Czech is highlighted by the lack of literature on sound symbolism and iconicity in the Czech lexicon, as seen in the context of the recent research on this topic in other languages.
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Příspěvek představuje koncept tzv. fonestému a poukazuje na jeho relevanci pro jazykovědnou teorii, pročež se snaží identifikovat iniciální konsonantické fonestémy v češtině. Prototypickým fonestémem v češtině je patrně /chr-/, a jelikož jediným dalším spolehlivě identifikovatelným fonestémem je /hň-/, zdá se, že fonestémy nejsou v češtině tak časté jako například v angličtině. Pokud bychom nicméně přijali inkluzivnější vymezení fonestémů, je možné, že by tento závěr bylo vhodné přehodnotit. Závěr příspěvku zdůrazňuje důležitost dalšího výzkumu fonestémů v češti- ně především v kontextu problematiky zvukového symbolismu a ikonicity, kterým nebylo v bohemistice – na rozdíl od (nedávné) zahraniční lingvistiky – věnováno příliš pozornosti.
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