In:The Motivated Sign
Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 2] 2001
► pp. vii–x
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Published online: 8 March 2001
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.2.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsxi
List of contributors
Introduction: Veni, Vidi, Vici
Part I: General15
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 beyond67
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: Iconicity in Cædmon’s Hymn and The Phoenix
Part III: Visual iconicity: Writing, typography and the use of images133
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 structures227
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 structures303
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
