Christina Ljungberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christina Ljungberg is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1873-5037
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
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[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] 2020. xii, 331 pp.
Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.
Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative
Christina Ljungberg
How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.
Semblance and Signification
Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.
Signergy
Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
Insistent Images
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[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
2020 Crisscrossing James Joyce’s Ulysses: Chiasmus and cognition Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 199–210 | Chapter
Chiasmus fundamentally involves iconicity. As a bi-lateral symmetrical figure that can have both an ornamental and a rhetorical function, it occurs on all levels of texts–sounds and graphemes, words, sentences, lines, chapters and entire books as well as on the narrative and on the conceptual… read more
2011 Unbinding the text: Intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 369–388 | Article
Intermediality concerns either the transgression of the boundaries between conventionally distinct media or the iconic enactment of one medium within another. How does this function in such a complex multimedia work as Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The… read more
2010 The bell jar, the maze and the mural: Diagrammatic figurations as textual performance Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 47–72 | Article
The practices and processes by which various forms of signs are generated, for example, the cartographical procedure by which maps are drawn, more generally, the diagrammatic ones by which networks of relationships are iconically represented, are themselves performances (maps are always both the… read more
2007 ‘Damn mad’: Palindromic figurations in literary narratives Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 247–265 | Article
Palindromes are chiastic figurations that arrest the habitual tempo-linear sequence of language and, in so doing, focus attention on the very act of signification. In narrative, they often prove pivotal for the overall structure of the text, going far beyond mere wordplay or verbal virtuosity.… read more
2007 Introduction: Insistent Images Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous
2005 Photographs in narrative Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 133–149 | Article
2003 Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fiction From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 183–199 | Article
2001 Iconic dimensions in Margaret Atwood’s poetry and prose The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 351–366 | Article