Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
vii
Part I.Iconicity in language
1
Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese
3
The relationship between iconicity and systematicity in Korean
ideophones
21
Iconicity of Telugu ideophones and full word reduplications
39
Morphosyntactic integration of ideophones in Japanese and
Korean: A corpus-based analysis of spoken and written discourse
57
Pathways of de-iconization: How borrowing, semantic evolution, and regular sound changes
obscure iconicity
75
System-internal and system-external phonic expressivity: Iconicity and Balkan affricates
105
Part II.Iconicity in literature
223
On the expressive and iconic value of enjambment from Homer to
Milton
125
Language that thinks us: Iconicity and Christian Bök’s Eunoia
137
Levels of iconicity in classical and modern English-language
haiku
: An attempt at operationalization
153
Salman Rushdie’s iconic syntax and its translation into
French
167
Heart without ‘the’: An iconic reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness
183
Crisscrossing James Joyce’s Ulysses
: Chiasmus and cognition
199
Part III.Iconicity in visual media
211
Show me how you feel: Iconicity and systematicity in visual morphology
213
In the kingdom of shadows: Towards a cognitive definition of photographic media
231
Iconicity in branding: A case of Japanese whiskey
245
Resemblance metaphors and embodiment as iconic markers in medical
understanding and communication by non-experts
265
Part IV.Iconicity in semiotic analysis
291
The cognitive function of iconicity
293
The iconic, indexical, and symbolic in language: Overlaps, inclusions, and exclusions
307
Index
327
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