Angelika Zirker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Angelika Zirker is involved.

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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.

Articles

Achimova, Asya, Maren Ebert-Rohleder, Lorenz Geiger, Joel Klenk, Michael Reid, Thalia Vollstedt and Angelika Zirker 2024 Chapter 5. Ambiguity in discourse: The Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 84–108 | Chapter

Ambiguity in language and communication has recently come under increasing attention in a number of disciplines, such as linguistics, literary science, psychology, theology, and law. In this paper, we focus on ambiguity in discourse and present an online corpus which contains rich annotations… read more

Zirker, Angelika 2017 Performative iconicity: Chiasmus and parallelism in William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 287–300 | Chapter

From the beginning of Shakespeare’s dramatic long poem The Rape of Lucrece, Tarquin and Lucrece are presented as antagonists: lust-breathed Tarquin (3) vs. chaste Lucrece (7). This opposition also connects them with one another, and the key to their relationship lies in a statement that is uttered… read more

Zirker, Angelika and Matthias Bauer 2017 Introduction: Dimensions of iconicity Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. xi–xiv | Miscellaneous