An Analysis of the Term Bling (565 words, 1 pages)
In linguistic terms, "bling" is an ideophone (a sound intended to evoke an idea)it is not onomatopoeia, because the act of jewelry shining does not make a sound. The form "bling-bling" is a case of reduplication.Coinage of the term "bling", which came into use in the late 1990s, is often ...
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