From Sign to Signing
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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
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Table of Contents
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Preface and acknowledgments | pp. ix–x
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List of contributors | pp. xi–xiii
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Introduction: From Signing back to SignsOlga Fischer and Wolfgang G. Müller | pp. 1–20
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Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing | p. 21
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The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualizationKlaudia Grote and Erika Linz | pp. 23–40
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What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approachWilliam J. Herlofsky | pp. 41–61
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Spatial iconicity in two English verb classesAxel Hübler | pp. 63–76
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What imitates birdcalls? Two experiments on birdcalls and their linguistic representationsKeiko Masuda | pp. 77–102
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Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping | p. 103
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Perspective in experimental shaped poetry: A semiotic approachJohn J. White | pp. 105–127
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Where reading peters out: Iconic images in the entropic textJulian Moyle | pp. 129–151
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Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’)Andreas Ohme | pp. 153–165
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“Vision and Prayer”: Dylan Thomas and the Power of XMatthias Bauer | pp. 167–181
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Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fictionChristina Ljungberg | pp. 183–199
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Part III: Structural iconicity | p. 201
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The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplicationC. Jac Conradie | pp. 203–223
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Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon: Base and derivation in the history of German verbal word-formationVolker Harm | pp. 225–241
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Creative syntax: Iconic principles within the symbolicBeate Hampe and Doris Schönefeld | pp. 243–261
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Aspects of grammatical iconicity in EnglishGünter Rohdenburg | pp. 263–285
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Beatrice: or The geometry of loveWilhelm Pötters | pp. 287–315
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How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in haikuMasako K. Hiraga | pp. 317–335
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Part IV: Intermedial iconicity | p. 337
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Intermedial iconicity in fiction: Tema con variazioniWerner Wolf | pp. 339–360
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Iconicity and literary translationElżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 361–376
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Part V: New applications of sign theory | p. 377
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Iconizing literatureJorgen Dines Johansen | pp. 379–410
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From signal to symbol: Towards a systems typology of linguistic signsPiotr Sadowski | pp. 411–424
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Author index | pp. 425–432
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Subject index | pp. 433–441
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002028004