Form Miming Meaning
Published on 15. March 1999
Book
Hardback
443 pages
978-1-55619-533-4 (ISBN)
Description
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed 'imagic iconicity', as well as 'diagrammatic iconicity', i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts. The studies presented here explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of authors brings into focus how far the primary code, the code of grammar is influenced by iconic motivation (with contributions on rules involved in discourse; rules in word formation; and phonological rules), and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. Others go one step further in exploring how, for instance, the presence of iconicity can tell us more about the structure of human cognition, or how the "iconicist desire for symmetry" can be related to the symmetry of the human body. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code, i.e. in how speakers and writers remotivate or play with the primary code; how they concretise what has become conventional or how they use form to add to meaning in literary texts, commercial language and in the new electronic use of texts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-533-4 (9781556195334)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of contributors; 4. Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use (by Fischer, Olga); 5. Part I. General; 6. Why Iconicity? (by Fonagy, Ivan); 7. Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory (by Haiman, John); 8. Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire (by Norrman, Ralf); 9. On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature (by White, John J.); 10. Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing (by Alderson, Simon J.); 11. Part II. Sound and Rhythm; 12. What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity? (by Fischer, Andreas); 13. Imagination by Ideophones (by Meier, Hans Heinrich); 14. Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions for Poetic Rhythm (by Bernhart, Walter); 15. Part III. Letters, Typography and Graphic Design; 16. Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts (by Nanny, Max); 17. 'singing is silence': Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E. Cummings (by Webster, Michael); 18. Iconicity and Divine Likeness: George Herbert's "Coloss. 3.3" (by Bauer, Matthias); 19. Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Willams (by Halter, Peter); 20. Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology (by Fischer, Andreas); 21. Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image? (by Wyss, Eva L.); 22. Part IV. Word-Formation; 23. Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-Formation (by Ungerer, Friedrich); 24. Iconicity in Brand Names (by Piller, Ingrid); 25. Part V. Syntax and Discourse; 26. On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes (by Fischer, Olga); 27. Iconicity, Typology and Cognition (by Kortmann, Bernd); 28. The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction (by Muller, Wolfgang G.); 29. Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships: Iconicity as a Principle of Text Organization (A Case Study) (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 30. Author index; 31. Subject index