Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgementsvii
List of contributorsix
Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out
Theoretical issues
Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception
On the role of iconic motivation in conceptual metaphor: Has metaphor theory come full circle?
Relative motivation in Gustave Guillaume’s theory
The beginnings of iconicity in the work of F. T. Marinetti
Negative or inverted iconicity
Mimesis lost – meaning gained
Non-supplemented blanks in works of literature as forms of ‘iconicity of absence’
Coconut shells and creaking doors: A semiotic approach to the avant-garde radio play’s sound-effects
Iconicity and sound
The iconic-cognitive role of fricatives and plosives: A phono-semantic analysis of a classical Arabic prayer Al-falaq
Iconic strategies in Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi : "Altri canti d’amor"
Iconicity and structure
Frozen locutions – frozen dimensions: LEFT and RIGHT in English, German and Russian
Some iconic correlations in language and their impact on the parole-langue dichotomy
The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present-day English causatives
Linguistic representations of motion events: What is signifier and what is signified?
Now you see it, now you don’t: Imagic diagrams in the spatial mapping of signed (JSL) discourse
Iconicity and narrative
Pirandello’s Si Gira : Iconicity and titles
Narrative structures and iconicity in Yasmina Reza’s Une désolation
Iconicity as a function of point of view
Iconic functions of phraseological units and metaphor
Author index411
Subject index417
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