In:Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 15] 2017
► pp. 321–330
Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability
Published online: 8 September 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.15.18tab
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.15.18tab
The paper argues that diagrammatic iconicity can be used in discourse as a means to elicit “covert” meanings of expressions, by evoking associations with other expressions that differ in meaning but are built according to the same structural schemas. The more strongly entrenched the expression thus evoked (proverbs being a case in point), the higher the probability that the association will be recognized and the “covert” meaning brought to the fore. It is claimed that interpretability of expressions that involve diagrammatically iconic associations is a matter of degree and that it can be measured along scales based on pragmatic parameters of the contexts of discourse.
Article outline
- 1.Preliminaries
- 2.Intended ambiguity and intended diagrammatic iconicity
- 3.Case study
- 3.1The original: Homo homini lupus
- 3.2Travesties
- 3.3Mini-corpus: Three titles taken from Gazeta Wyborcza
- 4.Conclusions
Notes References
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