Mirror image properties in human languages

Authors

  • Ireneusz Kida University of Silesia in Katowice, University of Bielsko-Biala, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach; Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna, Wydział Humanistyczno-Społeczny

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.2.2.107–113.2009

Keywords:

mirror image, symmetry, interdependence, reduplication, palindromes

Abstract

In this paper I discuss the phenomenon of mirror image properties in human languages. I give examples from English, Polish, Malay, Gothic, Latin and Classical Greek. Although I take into consideration only a few languages, my paper has further implications, namely, that mirror image properties exist in any language of the world. I start with a description of the natural phenomenon of mirror image and then extend my discussion to language. I talk about mirror image sentences, reduplication, and palindromes.

Author Biography

  • Ireneusz Kida, University of Silesia in Katowice, University of Bielsko-Biala, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach; Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna, Wydział Humanistyczno-Społeczny

    Bielsko-Biala, Poljska. E-pošta: irekkida@yahoo.com

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11.10.2020

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2009)

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How to Cite

Kida, I. . (2020). Mirror image properties in human languages. Slavia Centralis, 2(2), 107–113. https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.2.2.107–113.2009

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