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Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive Semiotics. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal, visual and gestural communication, these contributions discuss it from the point of view of human meaning-making, examined as a phenomenon that is experienced, embodied and often polysemiotic in nature.
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 October 2022
Published online on 13 October 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- IntroductionSara Lenninger | pp. 1–8
- Part I. General framework
- The intricate dialectics of iconization and structurationGöran Sonesson | pp. 11–26
- The iconicity ring model for sound symbolismKimi Akita and Mutsumi Imai | pp. 27–46
- Iconicity as a key epistemic source of change in the self: The film The Lives of Others revisited in the light of triadic semioticsFernando Andacht | pp. 47–62
- Indexicality and iconization in Mocking Spanish: Linguistic resemblance and reproduction of the White OrderFrancesco Piluso | pp. 63–76
- Part II. Symmetry
- Iconicity of symmetries in language and in literatureWinfried Nöth | pp. 79–102
- Chiastic iconicity: Refiguring symmetryRandy Allen Harris | pp. 103–134
- Tonal iconicity and narrative transformation: Transverse embodied chiasmus in Sylvia Plath and Dolly PartonJamin Pelkey | pp. 135–152
- Part III. Visual and intermedial iconicity
- Władysław Strzemiński’s theory of vision and Ronald Langacker’s theory of language: Iconic dimensions of visual perception and grammarElżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 155–172
- Iconicity for an iconoclast: Susan Howe’s critique of representational practicesJulian Moyle | pp. 173–192
- This is not a pipe: Iconicity in Magritte’s language paintingsJuan Carlos Moreno Cabrera | pp. 193–212
- Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures: An intermedial comparisonAnke Müller | pp. 213–242
- Part IV. Gesture and sign language
- Iconicity in gesture: How Czech children and adults use iconic gestures to deal with a gap between mental and linguistic representations of motion eventsKaterina Fibigerova and Michèle Guidetti | pp. 245–264
- Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground: Iconic modification in German Sign Language (DGS)Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Anke Müller and Sabrina Wähl | pp. 265–288
- Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German Sign LanguageMarloes Oomen | pp. 289–328
- Part V. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
- Echoes of the past: Old English onomatopoeiaMaria Flaksman | pp. 331–350
- The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic wordsTakashi Sugahara | pp. 351–368
- The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttakJi-Yeon Park | pp. 369–388
- The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust: A phono-semiotic studyMashael Assaadi | pp. 389–404
- Author index | pp. 405–406
- Subject index | pp. 407–411