المقاربة الإدراكية للرمزية الصوتية : شعرية الاشتقاق في تجربة الشاعر أمل دنقل

Abstract

The relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning, or what we may call (sound-meaning mappings), has long been proposed to be critically important for language evolution, or for its epistemological status. This article tries to investigate the cognitive dimensions and semantic features which are evoked by the perceived qualities of the linguistic sounds in their concentrations at varying frequencies or modulations. In Cognitive linguistics, sound symbolism is dealt with according to the perspective that some phonological features are correlated dirictly with some semantic and cognitive variables. Some of poetic texts of the Egyptian poet (Amal Dunqul), and some of his critical writings, are put in the light of this investigation. In our discussion of what we have called his (etymological poetics) we have mentioned to sound symbolism roots in ancient philosophy, and we have examined its significance and effects in the cognitive reactions of some prominent literary figures in their approaches to Dunqul`s poetry. Keywords: Sound-meaning mappings- language evolution- Semantic features- linguistic sounds- Sound symbolism- Phonological features- Cognitive linguistics- literary figures