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Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature / / edited by Max Nanny, Olga Fischer
Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature / / edited by Max Nanny, Olga Fischer
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (479 p.)
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) NannyMax
FischerOlga
Collana Iconicity in Language and Literature
Soggetto topico Philology
Iconicity (Linguistics)
ISBN 1-282-16352-3
9786612163524
90-272-9934-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821839403321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
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The Motivated Sign
The Motivated Sign
Autore Fischer Olga
Pubbl/distr/stampa [Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001
Soggetto topico Philology & Linguistics
Languages & Literatures
ISBN 1-282-16351-5
9786612163517
90-272-9933-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910453698503321
Fischer Olga  
[Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001
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The Motivated sign [[electronic resource] ] : iconicity in language and literature 2 / / edited by Olga Fischer, Max Nanny
The Motivated sign [[electronic resource] ] : iconicity in language and literature 2 / / edited by Olga Fischer, Max Nanny
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001
Descrizione fisica xiv, 387 p. : ill
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) FischerOlga
NannyMax
Soggetto topico Iconicity (Linguistics)
Semiotics
Linguistics
ISBN 1-282-16351-5
9786612163517
90-272-9933-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782309503321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001
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The Motivated sign : iconicity in language and literature 2 / / edited by Olga Fischer, Max Nanny
The Motivated sign : iconicity in language and literature 2 / / edited by Olga Fischer, Max Nanny
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001
Descrizione fisica xiv, 387 p. : ill
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) FischerOlga
NannyMax
Soggetto topico Iconicity (Linguistics)
Semiotics
Linguistics
ISBN 1-282-16351-5
9786612163517
90-272-9933-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Motivated Sign -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: veni, vidi, vici -- PART I. General -- Semiotic foundations of iconicity in language and literature -- The semiotics of the mise-en-abyme -- Good probes: Icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language -- PART II. Sounds and beyond -- The sound as an echo to the sense: The iconicity of English gl-words -- On natural motivation in metaphors: The case of the cucurbits -- Old English poetic texts and their Latin sources: Iconicityin Cædmon 's Hymn and The Phoenix -- PART III. Visual iconicity: Typography and the use of images -- Iconic punctuation: Ellipsis marks in a historical perspective -- Iconic functions of long and short lines -- Iconicity in advertising signs: Motive and method in miming 'the body ' -- Iconoclasm and iconicity in seventeenth-century English poetry -- PART IV. Iconicity in grammatical structures -- Structural iconicity: The English S- and OF- genitives -- The position of the adjective in (Old) English from an iconic perspective -- Present participles as iconic expressions -- Of Markov chains and upholstery buttons: "Moi, madame, votre chien …" -- PART V. Iconicity in textual structures -- Iconicity and rhetoric: A note on the iconic force of rhetorical figures in Shakespeare -- The emergence of experiential iconicity and spatial perspective in landscape descriptions in English fiction -- Iconic dimensions in Margaret Atwood's poetry and prose -- Author index -- Subject index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910815486703321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001
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