Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature / / edited by Max Nanny, Olga Fischer

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (479 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Philology; Iconicity (Linguistics)
• Altri autori: NannyMax FischerOlga
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Form Miming Meaning
• ISBN: 1-282-16352-3; 9786612163524; 90-272-9934-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821839403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iconicity in Language and Literature