Overview

This volume covers topics including: auditory and visual signs and signing; visual iconicity and iconic mapping; structural iconicity; and intermedial iconicity.

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Author:   Wolfgang G. Müller (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) ,  Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9789027225931

ISBN 10:   9027225931
Pages:   441
Publication Date:   30 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface and acknowledgments; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction: From Signing back to Signs (by Fischer, Olga); 4. Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing; 5. The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization (by Grote, Klaudia); 6. What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach (by Herlofsky, William J.); 7. Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes (by Hubler, Axel); 8. What imitates birdcalls?: Two experiments on birdcalls and their linguistic representations (by Masuda, Keiko); 9. Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping; 10. Perspective in experimental shaped poetry: A semiotic approach (by White, John J.); 11. Where reading peters out: Iconic images in the entropic text (by Moyle, Julian); 12. Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin's novel The Queue (Ochered') (by Ohme, Andreas); 13. Vision and Prayer : Dylan Thomas and the Power of X (by Bauer, Matthias); 14. Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fiction (by Ljungberg, Christina); 15. Part III: Structural iconicity; 16. The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication (by Conradie, C. Jac); 17. Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon: Base and derivation in the history of German verbal word-formation (by Harm, Volker); 18. Creative syntax: Iconic principles within the symbolic (by Hampe, Beate); 19. Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English (by Rohdenburg, Gunter); 20. Beatrice: or The geometry of love (by Potters, Wilhelm); 21. How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in haiku (by Hiraga, Masako K.); 22. Part IV: Intermedial iconicity; 23. Intermedial iconicity in fiction: Tema con variazioni (by Wolf, Werner); 24. Iconicity and literary translation (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 25. Part V: New applications of sign theory; 26. Iconizing literature (by Johansen, Jorgen Dines); 27. From signal to symbol: Towards a systems typology of linguistic signs (by Sadowski, Piotr); 28. Author index; 29. Subject index

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