From Sign to Signing: Iconicity in Language and Literature 3

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Wolfgang G. Müller, Olga Fischer
John Benjamins Publishing, 2003 - 441 pagina's
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.

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From Signing back to Signs
1
The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic
23
Iconicity and metaphor in the visual
41
Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes
63
Two experiments on birdcalls and their
77
A semiotic approach
105
Iconic images in the entropic text
129
Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokins novel
153
Base and derivation in
225
Iconic principles within the symbolic
243
Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English
263
or The geometry of love
287
A case in Haiku
317
Tema con variazioni
339
Iconicity and literary translation
361
Iconizing literature
379

Dylan Thomas and the Power of X
167
Visual strategies in contemporary fiction
183
The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication
203
Towards a systems typology of linguistic
411
Author index
425
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