In:Insistent Images
Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 5] 2007
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 14 March 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.5.toc
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgementsvii
List of Contributors
Introduction: Insistent Images
PART I. Iconicity and grammaticalization15
Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test: A cognitivist perspective
Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers: The grammaticalization of animate-entity handshapes in Japan sign language
PART II. Iconicity and the aural55
The physical basis for phonological iconicity
Reading aloud and Charles Dickens’ aural iconic prose style
Iconicity and the divine in the fin de siècle poetry of W.B. Yeats
Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy? Iconicity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented languages
PART III. Iconicity and the visual111
The beauty of life and the variety of signs: Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‘lyrical ideogram’ La Cravate et la montre
Forms of restricted iconicity in modern avant-garde poetry
Eco-Iconicity in the poetry and poem-groups of E.E. Cummings
The language of film is a matrix of icons
Liberature: A new literary genre?
PART IV. Iconicity and conceptualization209
Meaning on the one and on the other hand: Iconicity in native vs. foreign signed languages
Iconic text strategies: Path, sorting & weighting, kaleidoscope
‘Damn mad’: Palindromic figurations in literary narratives
PART V. Iconicity and structure267
Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface
Iconicity in the coding of pragmatic functions: The case of disclaimers in argumentative discourse
Double negation and iconicity
PART VI. Iconicity and multimedia / intertextuality321
Iconicity in multimedia performance: Laurie Anderson’s White Lily
Author index
Subject index
