In:From Sign to Signing
Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 3] 2003
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 30 January 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.3.toc
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction: From Signing back to Signs
Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing21
The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization
What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach
Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes
What imitates birdcalls? Two experiments on birdcalls and their linguistic representations
Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping103
Perspective in experimental shaped poetry: A semiotic approach
Where reading peters out: Iconic images in the entropic text
Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’)
“Vision and Prayer”: Dylan Thomas and the Power of X
Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fiction
Part III: Structural iconicity201
The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication
Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon: Base and derivation in the history of German verbal word-formation
Creative syntax: Iconic principles within the symbolic
Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English
Beatrice: or The geometry of love
How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in haiku
Part IV: Intermedial iconicity337
Intermedial iconicity in fiction: Tema con variazioni
Iconicity and literary translation
Part V: New applications of sign theory377
Iconizing literature
From signal to symbol: Towards a systems typology of linguistic signs
Author index
Subject index
