
The Motivated Sign
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- The Motivated Sign
- Title page
- LCC page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction: veni, vidi, vici
- PART I. General
- Semiotic foundations of iconicity in language and literature
- The semiotics of the mise-en-abyme
- Good probes: Icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language
- PART II. Sounds and beyond
- The sound as an echo to the sense: The iconicity of English gl-words
- On natural motivation in metaphors: The case of the cucurbits
- Old English poetic texts and their Latin sources: Iconicityin Cædmon 's Hymn and The Phoenix
- PART III. Visual iconicity: Typography and the use of images
- Iconic punctuation: Ellipsis marks in a historical perspective
- Iconic functions of long and short lines
- Iconicity in advertising signs: Motive and method in miming 'the body '
- Iconoclasm and iconicity in seventeenth-century English poetry
- PART IV. Iconicity in grammatical structures
- Structural iconicity: The English S- and OF- genitives
- The position of the adjective in (Old) English from an iconic perspective
- Present participles as iconic expressions
- Of Markov chains and upholstery buttons: "Moi, madame, votre chien ."
- PART V. Iconicity in textual structures
- Iconicity and rhetoric: A note on the iconic force of rhetorical figures in Shakespeare
- The emergence of experiential iconicity and spatial perspective in landscape descriptions in English fiction
- Iconic dimensions in Margaret Atwood's poetry and prose
- Author index
- Subject index
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