Form Miming Meaning
Editors
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts. The studies presented here explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of authors brings into focus how far the primary code, the code of grammar is influenced by iconic motivation (with contributions on rules involved in discourse; rules in word formation; and phonological rules), and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. Others go one step further in exploring how, for instance, the presence of iconicity can tell us more about the structure of human cognition, or how the “iconicist desire for symmetry” can be related to the symmetry of the human body. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code, i.e. in how speakers and writers remotivate or play with the primary code; how they concretise what has become conventional or how they use form to add to meaning in literary texts, commercial language and in the new electronic use of texts.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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Acknowledgements | p. xi
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List of contributors | p. xiii
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Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language UseOlga Fischer and Max Nänny | p. xv
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Part I. General
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Why Iconicity?Ivan Fónagy | p. 3
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Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation TrajectoryJohn Haiman | p. 37
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Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist DesireRalf Norrman | p. 59
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On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century LiteratureJohn J. White | p. 83
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Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose WritingSimon J. Alderson | p. 109
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Part II. Sound and Rhythm
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What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity?Andreas Fischer | p. 123
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Imagination by IdeophonesHans Heinrich Meier | p. 135
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Iconicity and Beyond in “Lullaby for Jumbo”: Semiotic Functions for Poetic RhythmWalter Bernhart | p. 155
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Part III. Letters, Typography and Graphic Design
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Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary TextsMax Nänny | p. 173
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‘singing is silence’: Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E. CummingsMichael Webster | p. 199
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Iconicity and Divine Likeness: George Herbert’s “Coloss. 3.3”Matthias Bauer | p. 215
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Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos WillamsPeter Halter | p. 235
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Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A TypologyAndreas Fischer | p. 251
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Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?Eva L. Wyss | p. 285
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Part IV. Word-Formation
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Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-FormationFriedrich Ungerer | p. 307
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Iconicity in Brand NamesIngrid Piller | p. 325
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Part V. Syntax and Discourse
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On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation ProcessesOlga Fischer | p. 345
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Iconicity, Typology and CognitionBernd Kortmann | p. 375
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The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American FictionWolfgang G. Müller | p. 393
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Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships: Iconicity as a Principle of Text Organization (A Case Study)Elżbieta Tabakowska | p. 409
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Author index | p. 423
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Subject index | p. 433
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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