Semblance and Signification

Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

University of Toronto / University of Amsterdam / University of Zurich

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.

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Preface and acknowledgements	ix–x
Introduction Pascal Michelucci	xi–xii
Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words Akita Kimi	1–18
Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material: The case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan Sign Language William J. Herlofsky	19–38
Ezra Pound among the Mawu: Ideophones and iconicity in Siwu Mark Dingemanse	39–54
Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language Olga Fischer	55–82
Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language Zhuanglin Hu	83–100
Words in the mirror: Analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian Luca Nobile	101–132
Un mélange genevois: Tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure’s Writings in General Linguistics Jui-Pi Chien	133–148
How to put art and brain together Mark Changizi	149–156
Image, diagram, and metaphor: Unmined resource and unresolved questions Vincent Colapietro	157–172
The farmers sowed seeds and hopes: Element order in metaphorical phrases Yeshayahu Shen and Elad Kotzer	173–190
Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts Vyacheslav Yevseyev	191–210
A burning world of war: How iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms Zhao Xinxin	211–230
Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: Divergence and perceptual forces in poetry Reuven Tsur	231–250
Mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: A cognitive approach Han-liang Chang	251–268
Iconicity in conceptual blending: Material anchors in William Morris’s News from Nowhere Wilson David Glyn	269–288
Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: Some modes of interaction John J. White	289–312
Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic’s Dime-Store Alchemy Gabriele Rippl	313–326
Words, like shells, are signs as well as things Heilna du Plooy	327–342
Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: An analysis of Kingsley Amis’s The Green Man Andrew James	343–352
The iconic indexicality of photography Piotr Sadowski	353–368
Unbinding the text: Intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books Christina Ljungberg	369–388
Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin Costantino Maeder	389–404
John Irving’s A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams’ The Door in the Floor as ‘(mult-)i-conic’ works of art Christine Schwanecke	405–422

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Linguistics

Semiotics

Theoretical linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011026794