Ryoko Sasamoto - Onomatopoeia and Relevance: Communication of Impressions via Sound

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Prof. Diane Blakemore is the best supervisor one could ever wish for. While this book is not based on my PhD thesis, I couldnt have written this without having worked under her guidance. I still remember when I first met her. She gave me three extremely philosophical papers. I am certain that it was her way of assessing what I was capable of and how I work. Within a week or so of supervising me, she identified my strengthan eye for data with a bit of theory (in a tongue-in-cheek way!). Thats what I still domy research is firmly founded in theory, relevance theory in particular, while I have a very strong applied aspect with real data. If Diane hadnt identified my style of working then, I might not be doing this now. So, thank you, Diane!

Another very special person who inspired me is Olivia Rohan. Thank you, Olivia, for such inspirational discussions on onomatopoeia. I hope this book does you justice.

I have also had the privilege to meet the finest scholars in relevance theory. I was particularly privileged to work with Prof. Deirdre Wilson, who provided extremely insightful comments on earlier stages of my work on onomatopoeia.

I would also like to thank Tim Wharton for inspiring me to work on onomatopoeia and other aspects of meaning beyond verbal communication.

Kate Scott is another inspirationthroughout the process of writing this book, Kate and I encouraged each other and remotely worked together. Kate is an inspiration, a good friend, and a sounding board in oneone cannot wish for more.

I would also like to express my gratitude to friends and colleagues in SALISpast and present. In particular, I would like to thank three colleagues I always look up to: Aileen Pearson-Evans, Dorothy Kenny, and Minako OHagan. I hope that one day, I can support colleagues in the way you support me.

I should not forget how I started out as a Linguistics student. I wish to thank Prof. Seiji Uchida, Prof. Akiko Yoshimura, and Prof. Ayumi Suga of Nara Womens University, for guiding me thorough my early years in research. I would also like to thank friends who supported me throughout my student days, in particular, Kazuyo Murata, Rebecca Jackson, and Adam Gargani.

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the publishers and manga-artists who gave permission for their copyright material to be included in this book, including Asumi Yoshino and Gekkan Korokoro Comic; Cookpad; Kani Doraku; Mieko Osaka and Hiyoko Club; ONE/Yusuke Murata and Shueisha; Rin Mikimoto and Kodansha; Usao Hirara and Neko Publishing; Yuto Tsukuda/Shun Saeki and Shueisha. I would also express my sincere gratitude to Cookpad Inc. and Dr. Jun Harashima of Cookpad Inc. for providing me with the user generated content parallel corpus.

This book is supported under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Book Publication Scheme, Dublin City University.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank Phil and Alfie for their support and patience. You keep me going.