Sound-symbolism, or the direct link between sound and meaning, is typologically and behaviorally attested across languages. However, neuroimaging research has mostly focused on artificial non-words or individual segments, which do not represent sound-symbolism in natural language. We used EEG to compare Japanese ideophones, which are phonologically distinctive sound-symbolic lexical words, and ...

INTRODUCTION: The intrapsychic process of resorting to the symbolic is innate and prepares child for organization his internal world. Throughout child's developmental trajectory, its playful projective expression, allows us assess psychographically internalized stages development. present study aims evaluate mental representation concept symbolism, size, perspective designed percepts al...

This critical article deals with the issue of symbolism, as its transparent employment is evident in modern Palestinian short story writer, Rāwiah Burbārah, through her production collection stories “Shaqā`iq Al-`Asīl” published 2007. The research focuses on a selected from aforementioned group, which white transparent, symbolic reading, to defining features symbolism. Symbolism prominent story...

Political science, as a discipline, has been reluctant to adopt theories and methodologies developed in fields studying human behavior from an evolutionary standpoint. I ask whether evolutionary concepts are reconcilable with standard political-science theories and whether those concepts help solve puzzles to which these theories classically are applied. I find that evolutionary concepts readil...