Wolfgang G. Müller

List of John Benjamins publications in which Wolfgang G. Müller is involved.

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From Sign to Signing

Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Müller, Wolfgang G. 2011 Verbal irony in Shakespeare’s dramatic works Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations, Callies, Marcus, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), pp. 195–210 | Article

The present study of Shakespeare’s use of irony refers to two theories, first, the echoic mention theory, which assumes that a speech act is ironic when the speaker mentions or echoes an earlier utterance in order to express an attitude of contempt or ridicule towards it, and, second, the theory of… read more

Müller, Wolfgang G. 2010 Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures: Towards a poetics of verse Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 347–363 | Article

This paper looks at the interdependence of metrical and linguistic units, focussing on metrical inversion and enjambment. While metrical texts favour (diagrammatic) iconicity as a result of equivalence (repetition) on the level of stress, foot, verse, stanza, etc., another source for iconicity is… read more

Fischer, Olga and Wolfgang G. Müller 2003 Introduction: From Signing back to Signs From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 1–20 | Article

Müller, Wolfgang G. 2001 Iconicity and rhetoric: A note on the iconic force of rhetorical figures in Shakespeare The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (eds.), pp. 305–322 | Article

Müller, Wolfgang G. 1999 The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 393–408 | Article