Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts

Nänny, Max

doi:10.1075/ill.1.16nan

In:Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 1] 1999
► pp. 173–198

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Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts

Max Nänny

Published online: 15 March 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.1.16nan

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