Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page 160
... interjectional or imitative character , which have their meaning not by inheritance from parents or adoption from foreigners , but by being taken up directly from the world of sound into the world of sense . Like pantomimic gestures ...
... interjectional or imitative character , which have their meaning not by inheritance from parents or adoption from foreigners , but by being taken up directly from the world of sound into the world of sense . Like pantomimic gestures ...
Page 161
... interjectional sounds like ah ! ugh ! h'm ! sh ! and in imitative sounds like purr , whiz , tomtom , cuckoo , should have thought that the whole secret of lan- guage lay within their grasp , and that they had only to fit the keys thus ...
... interjectional sounds like ah ! ugh ! h'm ! sh ! and in imitative sounds like purr , whiz , tomtom , cuckoo , should have thought that the whole secret of lan- guage lay within their grasp , and that they had only to fit the keys thus ...
Page 162
... interjectional and imitative sounds with their derivative words , as well as certain other parts of language of a more or less cognate character , I purpose to bring forward as far as possible new evidence derived from the languages of ...
... interjectional and imitative sounds with their derivative words , as well as certain other parts of language of a more or less cognate character , I purpose to bring forward as far as possible new evidence derived from the languages of ...
Page 171
... interjectional noises , unwritten and unwriteable , shall be turned to account by others in their articulate language . Something of this kind occurs with the noises called ' clicks . ' Such sounds are familiar to us as interjections ...
... interjectional noises , unwritten and unwriteable , shall be turned to account by others in their articulate language . Something of this kind occurs with the noises called ' clicks . ' Such sounds are familiar to us as interjections ...
Page 172
... interjectionally , it is well known that South African races have taken such sounds up into their articulate speech and ... interjectional noises of contempt or surprise , but which no tribe is known to have brought into their alphabet ...
... interjectionally , it is well known that South African races have taken such sounds up into their articulate speech and ... interjectional noises of contempt or surprise , but which no tribe is known to have brought into their alphabet ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu