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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Semblance and Signification; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; References; Part I. Word forms, word formation, and meaning; Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words; 1. Introduction; 2. Japanese phonosemantics; 3. Morphophonological condition of iconic words; 4. Experiment 1: The morphophonological condition as a non-sufficient condition; 4.1 Method and prediction; 4.2 Results and discussion; 5. Experiment 2: Referential condition of iconic words; 5.1 Method and prediction; 5.2 Results and discussion; 6. Conclusion.
- 3.3 Diagrammatic iconicity3.3.1 Gestalt iconicity; 3.3.2 Relative iconicity; 4. Beyond lexical iconicity; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language; 1. Introduction; 5.1 Evidence for cognitive connections between transparent and opaque reduplication from sign language; 5.2 Evidence for cognitive connections between transparent and opaque reduplication from the use of the ge-prefix in Germanic languages; 5.3 Why transparency may be lost: grammaticalization and lexicalization; 6. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References.
- Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language1. Introduction; 2. A historical-theoretical overview; 2.1 The Pre-Qin period; 2.2 The Han period; 2.3 The Song period; 2.4 The Qing period; 2.5 From 1949 to the present; 3. Imagic iconicity; 3.1 Picto-phonetic iconicity; 3.1.1 Onomatopoeic iconicity; 3.1.2 Phonaesthetic iconicity; 3.2 Pictographic iconicity; 3.3 Picto-phonetic-graphic iconicity; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Words in the mirror; 1. Theoretical and methodological aspects; 1.1 Echo-mirror neurons and arbitrariness; 1.2 An ancient question; 1.3 Two notions of arbitrariness.
- 1.4 Two notions of iconicity1.5 Working hypothesis; 1.6 Methodological remarks; 2. Descriptive aspects; 2.1 Vowel monophonemes; 2.1.1 Opposition axes; 2.1.1.1 Aperture. The [degree of aperture] of the phonemes tends to distinguish the {grammatical category} of the lexemes:; 2.1.1.2 Place. The [place of articulation] of the phonemes tends to distinguish the {morphological variation} of the lexemes inside each category:; 2.1.1.3 Accent. The [accent] distinguishes the {verbs}