Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
William J. Herlofsky
List of John Benjamins publications for which William J. Herlofsky plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Phonology | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Outside-In — Inside-Out
Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Articles
2017. Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantra. Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 249–262
This chapter will examine iconicity in Buddhist language and literature by analyzing the multidimensional iconicity in the gyate mantra that appears at the end of the Heart Sutra (Herlofsky 2013, 2014). It will be shown how the method of analysis for the four dimensions of poetry suggested by… read more | Chapter
2015. Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets West. Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 1–9
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2011. Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material: The case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan Sign Language. Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 19–38
Stated very simply iconic thinking is the ability to recognize similarities in different phenomena. This way of thinking can often lead to imitation and borrowing when languages come into contact, two important methods that languages have available to them for forming new words and enriching their… read more | Article
2010. Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization: What iconic signing spaces can tell us about mental spaces. Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 301–317
This chapter attempts to demonstrate how certain mental space images are structurally reflected in their corresponding iconic signs in Japan Sign Language (JSL). Section one provides a general introduction, and section two offers a brief summary of the framework developed by Tyler and Evans (2001,… read more | Article
2007. Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers: The grammaticalization of animate-entity handshapes in Japan sign language. Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 37–53
Sign language research has shown that all sign languages have verbs of motion in which the movement expressed by the verb is combined with an animateentity handshape. These handshapes iconically represent certain salient characteristics of their referents, and are therefore referred to as… read more | Article
2005. Now you see it, now you don’t: Imagic diagrams in the spatial mapping of signed (JSL) discourse. Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 323–345
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2005. Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out. Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 1–12
Miscellaneous
2003. What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach. From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 41–61
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2001. Good probes: Icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language. The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 55–66
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