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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature Victoria University (Toronto, Canada))
Otros Autores: Michelucci, Pascal, Fischer, Olga, Ljungberg, Christina
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2011.
Colección:Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Pascal Michelucci
  • Part I. Word froms, word formation, and meaning
  • Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words / Kimi Akita
  • Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of lingustic material: the case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan sign language / William J. Herlofsky
  • Ezra Pound among the Mawu: ideophones and iconicity in Siwu / Mark Dingemanse
  • Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language / Olga Fischer
  • Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language / Zhuanglin Hu
  • Words in the mirror: analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian / Luca Nobile
  • Part II. General theoretical approaches
  • Un mélange genevois: tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure's Writings in General Lingustics / Jui-Pi Chien
  • How to put art and brain together / Mark Changizi
  • Image, diagram, and metaphor: unmined resource and unresolved questions / Vincent Colapietro
  • Part III. Narrative grammatical structures
  • The fearmers sowed seeds and hopes: element order in metaphorical phrases / Yeshayalhu Shen & Elad Kotzer
  • Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts / Vyacheslav Yevseyev
  • A burning world of war: how iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms / Xinxin Zhao
  • Part IV. Cognitive poetics
  • Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: divergence and perceptual forces in poetry / Reuven Tsur
  • mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: a cognitive approach / Han-liang Chang
  • Iconicity in conceptual blending: material anchors in William Morris's News from Nowhere / David Glyn Wilson
  • Part V. Acoustic and visual iconicity
  • Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: some modes of interaction / John J. White
  • Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy / Gabriele Rippl
  • Words, like shells, are signs as well as things / Heilna di Plooy
  • Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: an analysis of Kingsley Amis's The Green Man / Andrew James
  • Part VI. Intermedial iconicity
  • The iconic indexicality of photography / Piotr Sadowski
  • Unbinding the text: intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Christina Ljungberg
  • Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin / Costantino Maeder
  • John Irving's A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor as '(mult- )i-conic' works of art / Christine Schwanecke.