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Meaningful sound uttered by people
In the broadest sense of the word, a vocable is any identifiable utterance or writing, such as a word or term, that is fixed by its language and culture. The use of the term for words in the broad sense is archaic and the term is instead used for utterances which are not considered words, such as the English interjections of assent and denial, uh-huh and uh-uh, or the interjection of error, uh-oh. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: VocableA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: L’émergence du vocable « gameplay » dans la sphère de la culture vidéoludique anglophone et francophone au 20e siècleInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Les "Regles de esquivar vocables" i "la Qüestió de la llengua"The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Pietas : réflexions sur l'analyse sémantique et le traitement lexicographique d'un vocable médiévalCited 16 times
- Go sideways: InterjectionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Speech disfluencyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
Noun A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
Adjective Able to be uttered.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Pietas : réflexions sur l'analyse sémantique et le traitement lexicographique d'un vocable médiéval
Faut-il traduire le vocable aristotélicien de 'phantasia' par 'représentation'?
Les aspects symboliques du vocable "Mozarabe", essai de reinterpretation
Artifex, architecte, ingénieur : les conditions d’émergence du vocable à la Renaissance
Le vocable en chinois
Terminus pour le marketing et adoption du vocable societing
Observations sur le vocable cayeux
Le vocable «blouse», Péluse, Damiette et l’activité des ateliers de tissage de la région du lac Menzaleh.
🆕 Influential since 2022
L’émergence du vocable « gameplay » dans la sphère de la culture vidéoludique anglophone et francophone au 20e siècle
Des violences sexuelles, ou de l’impératif catégorique moral et épistémologique de ne plus recourir au vocable d’abus sexuel
Paradigme dénominatif : le vocable initial prénominal et ses syntagmes
Histoire d’un vocable : la fraternité et ses ambiguïtés
Lorenzo AVELLINO, « Sous le vocable mal compris de la liberté » : travail, qualité et vols dans les soieries lombardes, 1760-1860 . Thèse de doctorat en sciences de la société mention histoire économique et sociale, sous la direction de Mary A. O’Sullivan et Germano Maifreda, soutenue à l’Université de Genève le 17 février 2023, 329 pages
📚 Books worth reading
Les "Regles de esquivar vocables" i "la Qüestió de la llengua"Antoni M. Badia i Margarit · 1999- 📕Les regles d'esquivar vocables a revisióGermà Colón · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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