| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 427 pages) |
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Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10 |
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Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Pascal Michelucci -- Part I. Word froms, word formation, and meaning -- Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words / Kimi Akita -- Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of lingustic material: the case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan sign language / William J. Herlofsky -- Ezra Pound among the Mawu: ideophones and iconicity in Siwu / Mark Dingemanse -- Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language / Olga Fischer -- Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language / Zhuanglin Hu -- Words in the mirror: analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian / Luca Nobile -- Part II. General theoretical approaches -- Un mélange genevois: tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure's Writings in General Lingustics / Jui-Pi Chien -- How to put art and brain together / Mark Changizi -- Image, diagram, and metaphor: unmined resource and unresolved questions / Vincent Colapietro -- Part III. Narrative grammatical structures -- The fearmers sowed seeds and hopes: element order in metaphorical phrases / Yeshayalhu Shen & Elad Kotzer -- Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts / Vyacheslav Yevseyev -- A burning world of war: how iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms / Xinxin Zhao -- Part IV. Cognitive poetics -- Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: divergence and perceptual forces in poetry / Reuven Tsur -- mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: a cognitive approach / Han-liang Chang -- Iconicity in conceptual blending: material anchors in William Morris's News from Nowhere / David Glyn Wilson -- Part V. Acoustic and visual iconicity -- Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: some modes of interaction / John J. White -- Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy / Gabriele Rippl -- Words, like shells, are signs as well as things / Heilna di Plooy -- Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: an analysis of Kingsley Amis's The Green Man / Andrew James -- Part VI. Intermedial iconicity -- The iconic indexicality of photography / Piotr Sadowski -- Unbinding the text: intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Christina Ljungberg -- Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin / Costantino Maeder -- John Irving's A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor as '(mult- )i-conic' works of art / Christine Schwanecke |
| Summary |
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary a |
| Notes |
Papers given at the Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, hosted by Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Canada)--and held on the Victoria College campus, 9-13 June, 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Iconicity (Linguistics) -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Iconicity (Linguistics)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Michelucci, Pascal
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Fischer, Olga
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Ljungberg, Christina
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| LC no. |
2011026794 |
| ISBN |
9789027284822 |
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9027284822 |
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9027243468 |
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9789027243461 |
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1283314800 |
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9781283314800 |
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9786613314802 |
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6613314803 |
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