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Limiting the iconic : from the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language /
Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of ico...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Iconicity in language and literature ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of iconicity in language change. An extensive analysis is provided of some basic but nonetheless fundamental questions relating to iconicity in language, including: what is a linguistic sign and how are linguistic signs different from signs in general? What is an iconic sign and how may iconicity be invol. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290779 9027290776 1282105426 9781282105423 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5037 ; |