William J. Herlofsky

List of John Benjamins publications in which William J. Herlofsky is involved.

Titles

Iconicity: East meets West

Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita

Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.

Outside-In — Inside-Out

Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky

This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.

Articles (9) | Order by:

Herlofsky, William J. 2017 Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantra Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 249–262 | Chapter

This chapter will examine iconicity in Buddhist language and literature by analyzing the multidimensional iconicity in the gyate mantra that appears at the end of the Heart Sutra (Herlofsky 2013, 2014). It will be shown how the method of analysis for the four dimensions of poetry suggested by… read more

Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita 2015 Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets West Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article

Herlofsky, William J. 2011 Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material: The case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan Sign Language Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article

Stated very simply iconic thinking is the ability to recognize similarities in different phenomena. This way of thinking can often lead to imitation and borrowing when languages come into contact, two important methods that languages have available to them for forming new words and enriching their… read more

Herlofsky, William J. 2010 Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization: What iconic signing spaces can tell us about mental spaces Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 301–317 | Article

This chapter attempts to demonstrate how certain mental space images are structurally reflected in their corresponding iconic signs in Japan Sign Language (JSL). Section one provides a general introduction, and section two offers a brief summary of the framework developed by Tyler and Evans (2001,… read more

Herlofsky, William J. 2007 Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers:

The grammaticalization of animate-entity handshapes in Japan sign language

Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 37–53 | Article

Sign language research has shown that all sign languages have verbs of motion in which the movement expressed by the verb is combined with an animateentity handshape. These handshapes iconically represent certain salient characteristics of their referents, and are therefore referred to as… read more

Herlofsky, William J. 2005 Now you see it, now you don’t: Imagic diagrams in the spatial mapping of signed (JSL) discourse Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 323–345 | Article

Herlofsky, William J., Costantino Maeder and Olga Fischer 2005 Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous

Herlofsky, William J. 2003 What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 41–61 | Article

Herlofsky, William J. 2001 Good probes: Icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 55–66 | Article