Costantino Maeder

List of John Benjamins publications in which Costantino Maeder is involved.

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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 (4) | Order by:

Maeder, Costantino and Romane Werner 2019 Chapter 5. T-V address practices in Italian: Diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic analyses The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 99–132 | Chapter

The aim of this research was to examine the Italian pronouns of address by means of (1) diachronic, (2) diatopic, and (3) diastratic analyses. Drawing on corpus linguistics, we compiled a two million-word corpus made up of narrative texts written by both men and women writers from the Italian… read more

Maeder, Costantino 2013 Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies Iconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 275–294 | Article

Iconic structures pervade Opera and Oratorio. While recitative relies mainly on imagic iconic strategies (imitation of the prosody of common speech), arias seem to rely more on diagrammatic iconic strategies and symbolism. A recitative is straightforward, dynamic: music follows the spoken word… read more

Maeder, Costantino 2011 Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 389–404 | Article

Schubert’s The Fair Miller-Maid (1823), based on a collection of lyrics by Wilhelm Müller, is characterized by piano accompaniments that consist mainly in the iconic imitation of real world sounds and of the main character’s mood, musical strategies which any listener accustomed to classical music… read more

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