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Semblance and Signification.
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary a. |
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| Notas: | 2.1.1.4 Centrality. The phonological [central] position of /a/ (with respect to [front] and [back] vowels) is reflected by the semantic central positions of ha (with respect to è and ho) and a (with respect to e and o). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (440 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | ReferencesIconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material; 1. Introduction; 2. Sign language morphology and word-formation processes; 3. Transfer of linguistic material; 3.1 Form; 3.2 Meaning; 3.3 Form-meaning units; 3.4 Syntactic relations; 4. The transfer of meaning and syntactic relations; 5. Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgement; References; Ezra Pound among the Mawu; 1. Introduction; 2. Ideophones; 2.1 The Mawu people and their language; 2.2 Ideophones in Siwu; 3. Iconicity: Relations between form and meaning in ideophones; 3.1 A cautionary tale; 3.2 Imagic iconicity. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284822 9027284822 |