Subject index

• abstract art 175, 189

• acoustic meaning 32, 335, 395

• aesthetic response 122–123

• aesthetics 49, 50, 57, 118, 128, 148

• affect52
  • affective quality of iconic relations149

• alliteration 104, 105, 120, 130

• alloreference 79, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 96, 97

• ambiguity 98, 99, 181, 182, 298, 301, 378

• anagnorisis 138, 142, 144, 146

• analogy 22, 34, 121, 140, 157–159, 164, 376

• antimetabole 103, 106–109, 111, 113, 121, 122–123

• antimetalepsis130

• antisymmetry 79, 83–84, 99, 136, 140

• antithesis 120, 130

• arbitrariness 12, 19, 27, 29, 30, 36, 37, 39–41, 193, 207ff., 261, 345, 376

• assonance 105, 130

• asymmetry, 81, 83, 93, 96, 100, 136, 168 ; see also symmetry

• double asymmetry15

• blank space in visual design 175, 179

• blend135ff.
  • complex blending 139, 143
  • conceptual blending 138, 142, 149

• double-scope blending136
  • embodied blend 135, 146
  • transverse blending 144, 150

• calligram 197, 198, 200–202, 204, 206, 208–210

• chiasmus 105–106, 108, 114, 117–118, 120–125, 127–128, 136–142, 144, 146–149
  • chiastic figures 103, 109, 116, 121
  • chiastic form 104–105, 111, 136
  • chiastic iconicity 108, 109, 121, 122, 128
  • chiastic structure 4, 117, 121, 124, 139, 150
  • chiastic symmetry122

• cognitive linguistics 38, 135, 137, 138, 156, 157, 159, 161, 162, 165, 166, 217n, 361

• cognitive load 246, 253, 260

• cognitive psychology 29, 157

• cognitive resonance128

• cognitive theory
  • of grammar 156, 158–159, 162, 164
  • of languagesee cognitive linguistics
  • of metaphor (CMT) 138, 156, 157
  • of vision 155, 157, 159

• conceptual art 209–210

• conceptual blending theory (CBT) 138, 139

• conceptualization 140, 157, 158, 159, 160, 168, 217, 248

• consonant
  • alternation 374, 379
  • euphonic40
  • final 375, 376, 382, 383
  • fricative 31, 372, 373, 390, 391, 399, 400
  • initial 119, 120, 382, 383
  • nasal 31, 35
  • plosive 372, 373

• conventionalization267

• core-periphery model 340, 341

• crosslinguistic similarity 31, 32, 33 ; see also similarity

• Czech 245ff., 260ff

• deiconization 335, 337ff., 340, 343–346 ; see also iconization reiconization

• deideophonization381see also ideophonization

• depiction 13, 21, 52n, 214, 215, 217n, 223, 238, 266, 270, 272, 273, 280

• diagram 55, 90, 91, 99, 143, 148, 149 see also mental diagram
  • diagrammatic iconicity 100, 104, 105, 109, 135, 137, 143, 147, 148, 149, 164
  • diagrammatic reasoning 108, 189

• double articulation21

• double transfer225

• embodied pattern148

• embodiment 136, 137n, 143

• emotion 104, 137, 138, 392, 393

• emotional meaning 389, 394, 396

• epanaphora 104, 112, 114, 126, 128, 130

• enantiomophism 81, 88, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 140 ; see also mirror symmetry, mirror image

• epiphora 104, 130

• epistemic attitude123

• epistemic value 48, 59

• etymology 87, 331, 333, 334

• evolutionsee also language evolution
  • of embodied chiasmus 136, 141
  • of emotion393
  • of feeling52
  • of human cognition136
  • of visual awareness160

• evolutionary theory 27, 139, 141

• experience
  • embodied 140, 304, 305, 306, 320, 322
  • emotional 143, 144, 392
  • first-hand/direct 15, 143
  • immediate14
  • interpreted158
  • linguistic 33, 40, 274
  • lived 7, 135, 183
  • perceptual 11, 15
  • real world experience 12, 236, 237
  • subjective392
  • of Firstness 53, 12, 189, 190, 392

• expression and content 11, 13, 14, 20, 30

• figurativeness
  • pattern of 103, 121, 122, 232
  • in art 196, 199, 209

• figure/ground 162, 164
  • in signed language 215, 218, 220, 224, 279

• Firstness 17, 48, 50, 51, 53, 56, 57, 59, 60, 66, 190, 147
  • firstness relation 137, 147

• grammaticalization 39, 234, 366

• grapheme 21, 95, 106

• ground, the 15, 16, 17, 20, 137, 258, 285, 395 ; see also figure/ground and iconic ground

• handshape mapping 294, 298, 301, 312, 319, 322

• handshape morpheme269

• Hijazi Arabic 389, 390

• human subjectivity 48, 49, 51, 60

• hypoicon 104n, 147, 148

• iconicity
  • acoustic 31, 32, 35, 335, 362
  • emergent 27, 30, 32, 33, 34–36, 39–41, 109, 127
  • endophoric 88, 105n
  • exophoric 88, 105n
  • Gestalt 103, 372
  • idiosyncratic104
  • imagic174
  • potential (possibilism) 47, 48, 49
  • primary 13, 18
  • secondary 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 30, 202, 367
  • tonal 135, 138n, 143, 147, 148, 149
  • degree of 95, 271, 335, 353, 357, 364, 366
  • hierarchy of353
  • iconic gesture 28, 36, 245, 246, 248, 250, 253, 254, 258, 259, 260, 261
  • iconic ground 17, 20, 148, 149, 214, 216, 285
  • iconic mapping 290, 293–294, 296, 299, 301ff.
  • iconic modification 218, 220, 265, 273, 275, 277, 284, 285
  • iconic motivation 265, 269n, 271, 273, 278, 284, 290, 296, 297, 299, 322
  • secondary iconic sign 11, 13, 25, 15n, 18

• iconization 21, 22, 63, 67, 71, 73 ; see also deiconization, reiconization

• ideophone 27, 30ff. 36, 38, 40, 331, 335, 369, 371ff., 381, 382, 383–385

• ideophonization 27, 36, 39, 40 ; see also deideophonization

• identity
  • monologic 49, 52, 59
  • principle of 103, 109, 110

• image
  • after-image 164, 165
  • image schema 111, 114, 116, 137, 139, 140, 141
  • mental image 87, 95, 100, 190, 250, 260, 265, 266
  • mirror image 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 94, 117, 121n, 136, 140, 235, 236
  • motion image213ff.
  • pure image 93, 201, 208
  • word image 193–194, 201, 202

• image-producing techniques 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280, 282, 284

• imagery 143, 155, 156, 158, 164
  • conventional 157, 159

• image superimposition 216, 224, 227ff., 230, 234, 235, 237, 238

• imagination 13, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57, 104, 111, 137n, 138, 148, 177, 186, 190

• indexicality 11, 16, 17, 18, 48, 54, 55, 65, 66, 67
  • indexical ground 16–17
  • indexical sign 11, 17, 18, 54, 56, 59, 60
  • indirect indexicality 65, 67, 69, 70, 71

• interjection 86, 335, 338, 351, 364, 367, 389, 390, 391, 392, 395

• interpretant 11, 50, 146, 395

• intertextuality 63, 68

• inversion 106, 128, 145
  • chiastic inversion107
  • mirror inversion 85, 106, 122
  • spatial inversion85
  • vertical inversion85

• isocolon 105, 108, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 130

• Japanese 32, 34ff., 40, 247, 351ff., 366

• juxtaposition 111, 114, 180
  • separateness and166

• Keats effect123

• Korean 31, 34, 247, 369ff.

• language
  • acquisition 27, 161
  • evolution 28, 30, 37, 335 ; see also evolutionary theory
  • use 74, 385

• languages
  • satellite-framed 38, 39, 247, 248, 249, 259, 365, 366
  • verb-framed 38, 247, 248, 250, 365

• legisign 148, 149

• lexeme 35, 106, 108, 130, 131, 217, 218, 220, 222, 227, 274, 277–279, 280
  • imitative331

• lexicography 270, 273

• lifeworld 12, 24, 47, 60

• linguistic
  • heterogeneity70
  • pattern247
  • representation 156, 245, 259 ; see also external representation
  • semantics24see also semantics

• mappingsee iconic mapping, handshape mapping

• markedness140

• mental
  • diagram 79, 87, 100, 111, 190
  • mental rotation85

• mesodiplosis 111, 115, 123, 125, 126, 131

• metaphor 88–89, 104n, 131, 157, 266, 335, 366, 393, 401 see also hypoicon
  • conceptual metaphor157see also cognitive theory of metaphor
  • conduit metaphor318
  • in signed language 291, 294, 306, 309, 318, 320, 321
  • sleeping metaphor 125, 146
  • theory of156
  • visual metaphor 157, 170

• metapragmatics 74, 75

• metonymy 104, 131, 335, 338, 266
  • in signed language 305, 320

• mimetics 27, 353

• mimicry 28, 38

• Mock Spanish63ff.

• modality
  • auditive-acoustic 19, 20, 265
  • epistemic 369, 370, 371, 377, 378, 385
  • sensory 28, 351, 354, 355, 359, 360
  • visual-gestural265
  • markers of 369, 371, 378, 381, 384

• morpheme 21, 95, 128, 382 ; see also bound morpheme, free morpheme, handshape morpheme

• morphosyntactic integration 36, 37, 315, 322, 369, 370, 381, 385

• motion
  • events 38, 247, 248, 250, 252, 253, 257, 258, 260, 261
  • in speech 245, 247–248, 249, 259, 260
  • in gesture 248–249ff, 259, 260–261
  • manner of 28, 34, 36, 245, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 259, 260, 261, 365
  • path of 38, 245, 250, 258, 260, 261

• motivation
  • iconicsee: iconic motivation
  • phonetic35

• narrative 51, 128, 138, 164, 213, 217, 237, 332
  • narrative case studies135ff.
  • narrative identification138
  • narrative structure258
  • narrative transformations 136, 138, 142, 143, 144, 147, 150
  • film narrative 51, 213

• naturalization 56, 65n, 67, 74

• nominalism 188, 189

• non-arbitrariness 245, 372, 389, 396 ; see also arbitrariness

• onomatopoeia
  • onomatopoeic ideophones 32, 34, 40, 383, 384
  • onomatopoeic interjection336
  • onomatopoeic meaning 32, 381n
  • onomatopoeic words 331, 333, 334, 342, 346, 353

• orience59

• palindrome 85, 88, 93, 94, 118

• perception 15, 22, 53, 158, 158, 159, 189, 213, 237, 305, 316, 384 ; see also proprioception, visual perception

• peripeteia142

• phaneroscopic categories 3, 47, 60

• phenomenology 12, 47, 139

• phenomenal consciousness 138, 149

• phoneme 21, 95, 334, 382, 384

• phonology 24, 271, 372, 390, 394

• phonomime 351, 352, 353, 354, 357, 360, 364, 365

• phonosemantics 371, 374
  • laws of332
  • phonosemantic analysis 333, 334, 340, 370, 376, 384

• poetics 137, 138, 183, 188

• poetry
  • concrete poetry175
  • shaped poetry174
  • poetic form175

• polysemiotic 245, 246, 252, 254, 260, 261

• pragmatic function 65n, 74, 369, 370

• proprioception121

• prosodic contour 120, 121

• proto-Germanic 333, 339

• proto-Indo-European339

• prozeugma 114, 124n, 131

• prosody 36, 39, 120, 125, 226, 381
  • prosodic pattern 108, 120, 121, 123, 130

• pure icon 14–15, 48, 104

• qualisign 48, 63, 138, 148, 149

• reduplication 37, 39, 120, 334, 369, 371, 381

• regular sound change 335, 337, 340, 341, 346

• reiconization 267, 270, 273, 284 see also iconization
  • re-iconized lexeme 228, 235

• relativization 257, 260

• representamen 11, 66, 147, 246, 395

• representation
  • abstract 162, 307
  • double 226, 227, 229, 231, 235
  • external246
  • linguistic 156, 245, 259
  • mental 245, 246, 249, 250, 254, 258, 261
  • visuospatial 117, 118, 253

• representational practices 181–183

• resemantization 21, 22, 68, 73

• resemblancesee similarity

• rhetorical schemes 103, 104, 108, 127

• rhyme 97, 104, 105, 120, 123, 131

• ring model 27–30

• schematization 361, 362, 363, 364, 366

• Secondness 17, 48, 50, 54, 56, 59, 66, 147
  • relation of137

• semantics 24, 126, 140, 312, 334 see also phonosemantics
  • semantic pattern 255, 259
  • semantic pejoration 64, 68
  • semantic shift 335, 337, 338, 346
  • semantic transfer89

• semiosis 16, 22, 47, 50, 186

• semiotics
  • semiotic discourse analysis135
  • semiotic resource 22, 24, 25
  • semiotic system 19, 72, 73
  • semiotic trichotomy 147–148

• sensory feeling384

• sequential order
  • principle of 103, 107n, 109, 110, 111

• sign
  • categories of 14, 18, 25, 47
  • cognitive value of52
  • consubstantial with object188

• sign language 216, 217, 222, 223, 224, 236, 365, 367, 369
  • American Sign Language (ALS) 35, 225, 270, 289, 293, 300
  • French Sign Language 225, 272
  • German Sign Language (DGS) 7, 35, 218, 225, 226, 229, 233, 236, 265, 266, 267, 272, 274, 275, 277, 285, 289, 290, 292, 293, 294ff. 315, 319ff.
  • Japanese Sign Language (JSL)31
  • South African Sign Language225
  • Spanish Sign Language292

• sign language corpus 265, 268, 271, 273, 279, 285, 294

• sign-object relationship 266, 268, 272, 273, 274

• sinsign 148, 149

• slang 88, 94, 332, 384

• similarity 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 31, 54, 88, 95, 96, 105, 121, 180, 189, 190, 202, 214, 246, 392
  • conceptual105
  • in film and signed discourse 220, 223, 267n
  • self-referential88see also token-type matching
  • self-similarity88

• simile 104n, 131

• sound symbolism 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 376, 384

• spontaneity 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 59, 60, 190

• structuralism 16, 21, 22, 159
  • poststructuralist approach180

• structural contrast141

• structural opposition 22, 24, 25

• symbol 16, 30n, 95, 147, 179, 187, 188, 203
  • symbolic character of grammar156
  • symbolic structure170

• symbol grounding problem, the 27, 30, 40–41

• symbolicity16

• symmmetry 91, 98, 100
  • aesthetic 91, 121, 123, 127–128, 140
  • aural symmetry 119, 120, 123
  • glide symmetry99
  • mirror symmetry 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 91, 93, 94, 96, 99, 103, 106, 108, 117, 118, 120, 121

• synechism 52, 57

• syntactic structure 108, 120, 121, 126, 131, 217

• tactile properties 12, 182, 356, 357, 358, 360

• theory
  • of cognitive load decrease253
  • of embodied chiasmus 136, 139
  • of fractals 87, 88
  • of language 157, 166
  • of relevance16see also cognitive theory, evolutionary theory

• Thirdness 17, 48, 50, 54, 56, 59, 60, 137, 190

• token/type 54, 86, 87, 95, 96, 135, 137, 138, 147, 148, 149, 394
  • token-type matching95

• tone 137, 147, 148, 149

• transitivity 289, 319, 320, 321, 322

• translocation 247, 248, 249, 250

• treadmill hypothesis345

• triadic sign theory 50, 59, 60

• truth value 369, 370, 378, 384

• typesee token/type

• variation
  • inflectional 106, 335, 336
  • lexical294
  • principle of98
  • of agreement 289–292, 295, 296, 321
  • of motion 113, 269

• vision
  • theory of 157, 159, 160, 169
    • contour vision 160–161
    • cubic vision 160, 165, 166, 167
  • silhouette vision 160, 163, 164

• visual
  • awareness 160, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170
  • field178
  • perception 24, 155, 157, 159
  • realism 159, 164, 169
  • representation237

• visualization 156, 157

• visuospatial analogy 119, 121

• visuospatial content246

• visuospatial representation 117, 118, 253

• vocalization 156, 157

• vowel
  • length 34, 37, 334, 381
  • shift340