Dimensions of Iconicity
Editors
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 September 2017
Published online on 1 September 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: Dimensions of iconicityAngelika Zirker and Matthias Bauer | pp. xi–xiv
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Part I. Phonic dimensions
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The effect of iconicity flash blindness: An empirical studyVojtěch Diatka and Jiři Milička | pp. 3–14
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Iconic treadmill hypothesis: The reasons behind continuous onomatopoeic coinageMaria Flaksman | pp. 15–38
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Tracking linguistic primitives: The phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairsNiklas Johansson | pp. 39–62
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Continuity and change: On the iconicity of Ablaut Reduplication (AR)Juan C. Moreno Cabrera | pp. 63–84
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Iconicity in English literary neologisms: (Based on R. Dahl’s fairy tale The BFG)Elena A. Shamina | pp. 85–96
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Part II. Cognitive dimensions
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Toward a theory of poetic iconicity: The ontology of semblanceMargaret H. Freeman | pp. 99–118
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The ocean of surging emotion: The iconic representation of Symbolist transcendence in the poem “Feather Grass” by Konstantin Bal’montAnastasia Kostetskaya | pp. 119–134
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Ekphrasis, cognition, and iconicity: An analysis of W. D. Snodgrass’s “Van Gogh: ‘The Starry Night’”Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou | pp. 135–150
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Part III. Multimodal dimensions
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Deleuze and the Baroque diagramTom Conley | pp. 153–166
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Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity: An interdisciplinary modelLars Elleström | pp. 167–190
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Iconicity, ‘intersemiotic translation’ and the sonnet in the visual poetry of Avelino De AraújoIsabel Vila-Cabanes | pp. 191–208
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Reading across the gutter: Tintin’s interrupted railway journeysJohannes Riquet | pp. 209–228
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The role of iconicity in package design: A case of the contemporary marketing of traditional Japanese confectioneryAyako Shibata | pp. 229–246
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Part IV. Performative dimensions
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Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantraWilliam J. Herlofsky | pp. 249–262
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Iconization of sociolinguistic variables: The case of archetypal female characters in classic Hollywood cinemaSunwoo Jeong | pp. 263–286
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Performative iconicity: Chiasmus and parallelism in William Shakespeare’s The Rape of LucreceAngelika Zirker | pp. 287–300
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Part V. New dimensions of iconicity
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Why notational iconicity is a form of operational iconicitySybille Krämer | pp. 303–320
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Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretabilityElżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 321–330
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The iconicity of literary analysis: The case of Logical FormMatthias Bauer and Saskia Brockmann | pp. 331–344
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Author index | pp. 345–346
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Subject index | pp. 347–351
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General