LEADER 03825nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910821839403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-16352-3 010 $a9786612163524 010 $a90-272-9934-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579354 035 $a(EBL)622571 035 $a(OCoLC)70766193 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279585 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11227274 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279585 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10267970 035 $a(PQKB)11388158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622571 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579354 100 $a19990107d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aForm miming meaning $eiconicity in language and literature /$fedited by Max Nanny, Olga Fischer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (479 p.) 225 1 $aIconicity in Language and Literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-55619-533-8 311 $a90-272-2179-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aForm 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 327 $aWhat, 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 327 $aDiagrammatic 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 330 $aThe recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed 'imagic iconicity', as well as 'diagrammatic iconicity', i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts. The studies presented here explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of authors brings into focus how far the primary code, the code of grammar is influenced by iconic motivation (with contributio 410 0$aIconicity in Language and Literature 606 $aPhilology 606 $aIconicity (Linguistics) 615 0$aPhilology. 615 0$aIconicity (Linguistics) 676 $a401/.41 701 $aNanny$b Max$0621128 701 $aFischer$b Olga$0164714 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821839403321 996 $aForm Miming Meaning$94079346 997 $aUNINA