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The Motivated Sign.
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language, i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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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.