Iconicity

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets West (by Hiraga, Masako K.); 4. General; 5. Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature (by Noth, Winfried); 6. Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" concept (by Stjernfelt, Frederik); 7. Sound Meets Meaning; 8. Iconic inferences about personality: From sounds and shapes (by Kawahara, Shigeto); 9. Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism applied to the distinctive features of French (by Nobile, Luca); 10. Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations between acoustic features of phonemes and emotional behavior (by Auracher, Jan); 11. What's in a mimetic?: On the dynamicity of its iconic stem (by Usuki, Takeshi); 12. Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese (by Toratani, Kiyoko); 13. A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs (by Sugahara, Takashi); 14. Language Meets Literature; 15. Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias Hill (by Cohen, Imogen); 16. The days pass ...: Iconicity and the experience of time (by Freadman, Anne); 17. Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature: The example of Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death" (by Ellestrom, Lars); 18. Don't read too much into the runes (by Conradie, C. Jac); 19. Grammar Meets Iconicity; 20. Iconicity in question: The case of 'optional' prepositions in Lithuanian (by De Penanros, Helene); 21. Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective (by Ohori, Toshio); 22. Author index; 23. Subject index