Individuals can be more or less sensitive to it, but their reactions are not found to be contradictory when observation is made with all the requisite guarantees: the timbre of, for example, goes together with the concept of smallness, which is not invalidated by either big or small in English the timbre of naturally evokes thickness and heaviness.
“The existence of a universal symbolism in the case of certain sounds of language … which has been merely a very plausible hypothesis for a long time, appears to be well established today. This was immediately understood” (Jespersen 1933: 558). ‘Don’t pull the string for bimmelim, only for bummelum’. “One summer, when there was a great drought at Fredkrisstad (Norway), the following words were posted in a W.C. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Iconicity in Language: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary By Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera This book first published 2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2020 by Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera All rights for this book reserved. Iconicity in Language: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary By
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