Semblance and Signification

Editors

Pascal Michelucci | University of Toronto

Olga Fischer | University of Amsterdam

Christina Ljungberg | University of Zurich

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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.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.10

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements | pp. ix–x

Introduction

Pascal Michelucci | pp. xi–xii

Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words

Kimi Akita | pp. 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 | pp. 19–38

Ezra Pound among the Mawu: Ideophones and iconicity in Siwu

Mark Dingemanse | pp. 39–54

Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language

Olga Fischer | pp. 55–82

Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language

Zhuanglin Hu | pp. 83–100

Words in the mirror: Analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian

Luca Nobile | pp. 101–132

Un mélange genevois: Tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure’s Writings in General Linguistics

Jui-Pi Chien | pp. 133–148

How to put art and brain together

Mark Changizi | pp. 149–156

Image, diagram, and metaphor: Unmined resource and unresolved questions

Vincent Colapietro | pp. 157–172

The farmers sowed seeds and hopes: Element order in metaphorical phrases

Yeshayahu Shen and Elad Kotzer | pp. 173–190

Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts

Vyacheslav Yevseyev | pp. 191–210

A burning world of war: How iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms

Xinxin Zhao | pp. 211–230

Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: Divergence and perceptual forces in poetry

Reuven Tsur | pp. 231–250

Mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: A cognitive approach

Han-liang Chang | pp. 251–268

Iconicity in conceptual blending: Material anchors in William Morris’s News from Nowhere

Wilson David Glyn | pp. 269–288

Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: Some modes of interaction

John J. White | pp. 289–312

Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic’s Dime-Store Alchemy

Gabriele Rippl | pp. 313–326

Words, like shells, are signs as well as things

Heilna du Plooy | pp. 327–342

Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: An analysis of Kingsley Amis’s The Green Man

Andrew James | pp. 343–352

The iconic indexicality of photography

Piotr Sadowski | pp. 353–368

Unbinding the text: Intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books

Christina Ljungberg | pp. 369–388

Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin

Costantino Maeder | pp. 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 | pp. 405–422

Cited by (3)

Cited by three other publications

Ziomek, Paweł

2020. Corpus-based Analysis of Verbal and Nominal Reduplication in Colloquial Singapore English. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies :29/2 ► pp. 55 ff.

Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara & Kimi Akita

2015. Introduction. In Iconicity [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14], ► pp. 1 ff.

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2017. Literatur. In Nicht-ikonische Chronologie, ► pp. 286 ff.

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