Outside-In — Inside-Out
Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Costantino Maeder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Costantino Maeder plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
2019 Chapter 5. T-V address practices in Italian: Diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic analyses The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 99–132 | Chapter
The aim of this research was to examine the Italian pronouns of address by means of (1) diachronic, (2) diatopic, and (3) diastratic analyses. Drawing on corpus linguistics, we compiled a two million-word corpus made up of narrative texts written by both men and women writers from the Italian… read more
2013 Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies Iconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 275–294 | Article
Iconic structures pervade Opera and Oratorio. While recitative relies mainly on imagic iconic strategies (imitation of the prosody of common speech), arias seem to rely more on diagrammatic iconic strategies and symbolism. A recitative is straightforward, dynamic: music follows the spoken word… read more
2011 Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 389–404 | Article
Schubert’s The Fair Miller-Maid (1823), based on a collection of lyrics by Wilhelm Müller, is characterized by piano accompaniments that consist mainly in the iconic imitation of real world sounds and of the main character’s mood, musical strategies which any listener accustomed to classical music… read more
2005 Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous