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Iconicity
East meets West
Editors
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary texts; and iconic motivation in grammar, the chapters show the diversity and dynamics of iconicity research, ranging from iconicity as a driving force in language structure and change, to the various uses of images, diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text, in both narrative and poetic forms, as well as on all varieties of discourse, including the visual and the oral.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 January 2015
Published online on 26 January 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- List of contributors | pp. ix–x
- Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets WestMasako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita | pp. 1–9
- General
- Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literatureWinfried Nöth | pp. 13–34
- Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" conceptFrederik Stjernfelt | pp. 35–53
- Sound Meets Meaning
- Iconic inferences about personality: From sounds and shapesShigeto Kawahara, Kazuko Shinohara and Joseph Grady | pp. 57–70
- Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism applied to the distinctive features of FrenchLuca Nobile | pp. 71–91
- Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations between acoustic features of phonemes and emotional behaviorJan Auracher | pp. 93–108
- What’s in a mimetic? On the dynamicity of its iconic stemTakeshi Usuki and Kimi Akita | pp. 109–123
- Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in JapaneseKiyoko Toratani | pp. 125–141
- A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbsTakashi Sugahara and Shoko Hamano | pp. 143–160
- Language Meets Literature
- Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias HillImogen Cohen and Olga Fischer | pp. 163–184
- The days pass …: Iconicity and the experience of timeAnne Freadman | pp. 185–205
- Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature: The example of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death”Lars Elleström | pp. 207–218
- Don’t read too much into the runesC. Jac Conradie | pp. 219–238
- Grammar Meets Iconicity
- Iconicity in question: The case of 'optional' prepositions in LithuanianHélène De Penanros | pp. 241–257
- Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspectiveToshio Ohori | pp. 259–274
- Author index | p. 275
- Subject index | pp. 277–279
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2017. Performative iconicity. In Dimensions of Iconicity [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15], ► pp. 287 ff.
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