From Sign to Signing
| Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
| University of Amsterdam
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is given to the way non-linguistic visual and auditory signs (such as gestures and bird sounds) are represented in language, and more specifically in ‘signed’ language, and how such signs influence semantic conceptualization. Other studies examine more closely how visual signs and representations of time and space are incorporated or reflected in literary language, in fiction as well as (experimental) poetry. A further new approach concerns intermedial iconicity, which emerges in art when its medium is changed or another medium is imitated. A more abstract, diagrammatic type of iconicity is again investigated, with reference to both language and literature: some essays focus on the device of reduplication, isomorphic tendencies in word formation and on creative iconic patterns in syntax, while others explore numerical design in Dante and geometrical patterning in Dylan Thomas. A number of theoretically-oriented papers pursue post-Peircean approaches, such as the application of reader-response theory and of systems theory to iconicity.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgments
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ix–x
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List of contributors
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xi–xiii
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1–20
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Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing
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21
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23–40
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41–61
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63–76
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77–102
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Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping
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103
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105–127
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129–151
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153–165
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167–181
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183–199
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Part III: Structural iconicity
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201
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203–223
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225–241
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243–261
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263–285
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287–315
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317–335
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Part IV: Intermedial iconicity
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337
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339–360
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361–376
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Part V: New applications of sign theory
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377
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379–410
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411–424
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Author index
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425–432
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Subject index
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433–441
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General