Dimensions of Iconicity
Published on 8. September 2017
Book
Hardback
351 pages
978-90-272-4351-5 (ISBN)
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This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
790 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4351-5 (9789027243515)
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Content
1. Dedication; 2. Preface; 3. Dimensions of iconicity (by Zirker, Angelika); 4. Part I. Phonic dimensions; 5. The effect of iconicity flash blindness - An empirical study (by Diatka, Vojtech); 6. Iconic treadmill hypothesis - The reasons behind continuous onomatopoeic coinage (by Flaksman, Maria); 7. Tracking linguistic primitives: The phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairs (by Johansson, Niklas); 8. Continuity and change: On the iconicity of Ablaut Reduplication (AR) (by Moreno Cabrera, Juan C.); 9. Iconicity in English literary neologisms: (Based on R. Dahl's fairy tale the BFG) (by Shamina, Elena A.); 10. Part II. Cognitive dimensions; 11. Toward a theory of poetic iconicity: The ontology of semblance (by Freeman, Margaret H.); 12. The ocean of surging emotion: The iconic representation of symbolist transcendence in the poem "Feather Grass" by Konstantin Bal'mont (by Kostetskaya, Anastasia); 13. Ekphrasis, cognition, and iconicity: An analysis of W.#x202f;D. Snodgrass's "Van Gogh: 'The Starry Night'" (by Panagiotidou, Maria-Eirini); 14. Part III. Multimodal dimensions; 15. Deleuze and the baroque diagram (by Conley, Tom); 16. Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity: An interdisciplinary model (by Ellestrom, Lars); 17. Iconicity, 'intersemiotic translation' and the sonnet in the visual poetry of Avelino De Araujo (by Vila Cabanes, Isabel); 18. Reading across the gutter: Tintin's interrupted railway journeys (by Riquet, Johannes); 19. The role of iconicity in package design: A case of the contemporary marketing of traditional Japanese confectionery (by Shibata, Ayako); 20. Part IV. Performative dimensions; 21. Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantra (by Herlofsky, William J.); 22. Iconization of sociolinguistic variables: The case of archetypal female characters in classic Hollywood cinema (by Jeong, Sunwoo); 23. Performative iconicity: Chiasmus and parallelism in William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece (by Zirker, Angelika); 24. Part V. New dimensions of iconicity; 25. Why notational iconicity is a form of operational iconicity (by Kramer, Sybille); 26. Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 27. The iconicity of literary analysis: The case of Logical Form (by Bauer, Matthias)