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Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature /
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed 'imagic iconicity', as well as 'diagrammatic iconicity', i.e. iconicity of a more abstra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Form miming meaning; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use; PART I General; Why Iconicity?; Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory; Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire; On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature; Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing; PART II Sound and Rhythm
- What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity?Imagination by Ideophones; Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm; PART III Letters, Typography and Graphic Design; Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts; 'singing is silence' Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E. Cummings; Iconicity and Divine Likeness; Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology; Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?; PART IV Word-Formation
- Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-FormationIconicity in Brand Names; PART V Syntax and Discourse; On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes; Iconicity, Typology and Cognition; The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction; Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships; Author Index; Subject Index