Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
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… read more
Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more
Like contrast and analogy, iconicity defined as correspondence of form and meaning stems from the ability of human mind to observe similarity between entities. When similarity is perceived and considered with reference to difference, it gives rise to analogy. In this sense, analogy and contrast… read more
The paper presents evidence in support of the claim that there are some obvious parallels between Ronald Langacker’s theory of grammar, with its emphasis on the role of imagery in language creation and use, and the theory of visual perception as proposed by the prominent Polish art historian and… read more
This chapter analyzes haiku poems written in English, focusing on iconicity as a property of the genre, based on its formal and semantic restrictions. Iconic miming is argued to be an inherent aspect of poetics and Langacker’s theoretical concept of dimensions of imagery in his cognitive theory… read more
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… read more
Ljungberg, Christina and Elżbieta Tabakowska 2007 Introduction: Insistent ImagesInsistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous
To bridge the unfortunate gap between "literature" and "language", literary critics, including critics of translation, should make use of what linguists have to say about language. Out of modern linguistic theories, Cognitive Linguistics seems particularly promising. On the basis of Robert Frost's… read more
The paper is a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the requirements that dictionaries should meet in order to satisfy the needs of language learners and translators. The shortcomings of some standard dictionaries are discussed in reference to one particular item: the modal qualifier surely… read more
