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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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