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Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature

The studies in this volume explore iconicity from two different angles: the first investigates how far the code of grammar is influenced by iconic motivation; the second explores the influence of iconicity on, for instance, the structure of human cognition.
Print Book, English, 1999
John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1999
Kongress Zürich 1997
XXXVI, 443 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm.
9789027221797, 9781556195334, 9027221790, 1556195338
611687195
1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of contributors; 4. Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use (by Fischer, Olga); 5. Part I. General; 6. Why Iconicity? (by Fonagy, Ivan); 7. Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory (by Haiman, John); 8. Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire (by Norrman, Ralf); 9. On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature (by White, John J.); 10. Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing (by Alderson, Simon J.); 11. Part II. Sound and Rhythm; 12. What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity? (by Fischer, Andreas); 13. Imagination by Ideophones (by Meier, Hans Heinrich); 14. Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions for Poetic Rhythm (by Bernhart, Walter); 15. Part III. Letters, Typography and Graphic Design; 16. Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts (by Nanny, Max); 17. 'singing is silence': Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E. Cummings (by Webster, Michael); 18. Iconicity and Divine Likeness: George Herbert's "Coloss. 3.3" (by Bauer, Matthias); 19. Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Willams (by Halter, Peter); 20. Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology (by Fischer, Andreas); 21. Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image? (by Wyss, Eva L.); 22. Part IV. Word-Formation; 23. Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-Formation (by Ungerer, Friedrich); 24. Iconicity in Brand Names (by Piller, Ingrid); 25. Part V. Syntax and Discourse; 26. On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes (by Fischer, Olga); 27. Iconicity, Typology and Cognition (by Kortmann, Bernd); 28. The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction (by Muller, Wolfgang G.); 29. Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships: Iconicity as a Principle of Text Organization (A Case Study) (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 30. Author index; 31. Subject index
The papers were given at the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on "Iconicity in Language and Literature", organised by the University of Zurich, 20-22 March 1997
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