Outside-In - Inside-Out

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Outside-In-Inside-Out
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
References
I. Theoretical issues
Iconicity or iconization?
1. Introduction: Two linguistic cultures
2. Iconicity and its ambiguities
3. Against the grain
4. Iconicity revisited
5. Conclusion: From iconicity to iconization
Notes
References
On the role of iconic motivation in conceptual metaphor
1. Introductory remarks
2. Comparison theories of metaphor
3. Conceptual metaphor theory: Motivation by correspondences in experience
4. Conceptual integration and the interaction view of metaphor
5. Similarity in the conceptual typology of metaphor
6. Metaphors and mental imagery
7. Experiential correlations feeding metaphor
8. Conclusions: Towards a prototype model of conceptual metaphor
Notes
References
Appendix
Relative motivation in Gustave Guillaume's theory
1. Introduction
2. Operative time
3. The various stems of the verb aller
4. Two types of limitations on arbitrariness
Notes
References
The beginnings of iconicity in the work of F. T. Marinetti
1. Introduction
2. What does analogy mean in Marinetti's manifestos?
3. Elements of iconicity in the Manifesto tecnico
4. 'Analogy' and 'intuition'
5. Marinetti and Peirce
6. The 'Words-in-freedom' and the development of literary Futurism
7. Umbrellas can be useful...
Notes
References
II. Negative or inverted iconicity
Mimesis lost - meaning gained
1. Introduction
2. The mimesis-lost-meaning-gained principle at work: Metaphor
3. Rhyme and rhythm
4. Text-picture combinations
5. Text and music
6. Summary and further thoughts
References
Non-supplemented blanks in works of literature as forms of 'iconicity of absence'
1. Introduction: From presence to non-supplemented absence in signifying systems as objects of iconicity research
2. Non-supplemented aural blanks: The iconicity of internal and framing silence in works of literature
3. Non-supplemented visual blanks: The iconicity of absent print inside and around works of literature
4. Non-supplemented semantic blanks: The iconicity of intratextual and framing Leerstellen
5. Eloquent gaps and silences and the problem of marking and decoding absences as iconic
6. Typological reconsiderations
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Photographs in narrative
1. Introduction
2. The surface of the image: Hidden patterns
3. Photographic spectrality: The object of the photographic sign
4. A photograph of what? Photographic self-reference in narrative
Notes
References
Coconut shells and creaking doors
1. Acoustic signs: Iconicity, indexicality and the role of conventionalization in the radio play
2. Conventionalized sound-effects in the radio-play
3. The semiotics of Brechtian de-familiarization
4. "The terror of uncertain signs'': Peter Handke's Radio Play (No. 1)
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
III. Iconicity and sound
The iconic-cognitive role of fricatives and plosives
1. Introduction
2. Purpose of the study
3. Methodology
4. Background information
4.1. Types of iconicity
4.2. Carter and Nash: Phonetic metaphor
5. Procedure of translation
6. Procedure of transcription
7. The text
8. Semantic structure of Al-falaq
8.1. al-falaq: A superordinate term
8.2. waqab: A complex three-fold process
9. Phono-iconic analysis
9.1. The qalqala group: /q/ as a controlling phoneme
9.2. Glide in word-initial position: Acoustic significance of waqab
10. Conclusion
References
Iconic uses of rhyme
1. Introduction
2. Perfect single rhymes
2.1. Performative rhymes
2.2. Resemblance
3. Imperfect single rhymes
3.1. Uncertainty, doubt
3.2. Discord and disharmony
3.3. Order and disorder
3.4. Dissimilarity
3.5. Inaccuracy
3.6. Negation
4. Masculine and feminine rhymes
5. Rhyme schemes
5.1. Change
5.2. Fragmentation
5.3. Embrace, frame and imprisonment
5.4. Uniqueness and solitariness
6. Iconic uses of the triplet
6.1. Number three
6.2. Circularity, return and centring
6.3. Continuity
6.4. Quantity
7. Conclusion
References
Iconic strategies in Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi
1. Introduction
2. Madrigalism and iconicity
3. `"Altri canti'': The verses
4. Iconicity in the score
5. The iconic strategies of Monteverdi
6. The two "Altri canti'': Intertextuality
7. Conclusions
Notes
References
Appendix (related to Table 1)
IV. Iconicity and structure
Frozen locutions - frozen dimensions
1. Introduction
2. Deixis
3. Spatial orientation
3.1. Relative vs. absolute
3.2. Relative orientation: Right vs. left in Indo-European languages
4. The central problem
5. Corpus analysis - the database
6. Corpus analysis - findings and explanations
6.1. Left and right in English usage
6.2. Links and rechts in German usage
6.3. Lev* and prav* in Russian usage
7. Discussion and summary of results
Notes
References
Some iconic correlations in language and their impact on the parole-langue dichotomy
1. Introduction
2. Deictics
2.1. The pronoun in the traditional perspective
2.2. The question: Is the pronoun a pro-noun?
2.3. The clue: Iconicity
2.4. Deictic demonstratives: A sample
3. Topic-head utterances
3.1. Topic-head utterances: A sample
4. Focus intonation
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
References
The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present-day English causatives
1. Introduction
2. Previous scholarship
2.1. Present-day English: Mittwoch, Dixon, Duffley
2.2. Diachrony: Fischer
2.3. Givón
3. The extended binding hierarchy for implicative causatives
3.1. Extending the binding hierarchy for implicative causatives
3.2. Scoring the causatives
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Linguistic representations of motion events
1. Introduction
2. What's in a motion event?
3. Granularity of event segmentation
4. Manner of motion
5. From typology to language use
6. Encoding of motion events
6.1. Cross-typological comparisons of path
6.2. Cross-typological comparisons of manner
7. Conceiving of motion events: Typological influences on attention and memory
8. Rethinking iconicity
Notes
References
Now you see it, now you don't
1. Introduction
2. Iconicity and the data
2.1. Iconicity (image, diagram, and metaphor) in spoken and signed languages
2.2. The data
2.3. Peircean triadic iconicity and local and global signing space
3. Diagrammatic, metaphoric, and imagic mapping
3.1. Diagrammatic mapping
3.2. Metaphoric mapping
3.3. Imagic mapping
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
V. Iconicity and narrative
Pirandello's Si Gira
1. Introduction
2. Different ways of reading titles
3. Pirandello and titles
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Narrative structures and iconicity in Yasmina Reza's Une désolation
1. Introduction
2. Paradoxical pronouns
3. Dialogue or monologue? Types of speech
4. Fragments and blanks
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Iconicity as a function of point of view
1. Defining basic notions
2. Assumptions
3. Case studies
3.1. Form miming viewing a scene
3.2. Form miming recalling a scene
3.3. Form miming creating a scene
3.4. Summary
4. Conclusions
References
Iconic functions of phraseological units and metaphor
1. Introduction
2. Phraseological units and metaphor
2.1. Characteristics of phraseological units
2.2. Metaphor: Dead or alive?
3. Iconic properties of cliché, idiom and metaphor
3.1. Indexicality of phraseological units
3.2. Diagrammatic iconicity of metaphor
3.3. Innate vs. contextualized iconicity
4. The web of meanings in The Sacred Fount
5. Metaphorical and indexical iconicity in the text
5.1. Patterns of metaphor
5.2. Phraseological units in the novel
5.3. Wider patterns in the text
6. Conclusions
Notes
APPENDIX
References
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