Semblance and signification
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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 of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this…
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- Full title :Semblance and signification / edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg.
Summary
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 of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary a.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):J. Benjamins Pub
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
Papers given at the Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, hosted by Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Canada)--and held on the Victoria College campus, 9-13 June, 2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 427 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027284822, 9027284822, 9027243468, 9789027243461, 1283314800, 9781283314800, 9786613314802, 6613314803
- oclc:ocn769188770
- LC Classification:P99.4.I26
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Introduction / Pascal Michelucci -- Part I. Word froms, word formation, and meaning -- Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words / Kimi Akita -- Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of lingustic material: the case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan sign language / William J. Herlofsky -- Ezra Pound among the Mawu: ideophones and iconicity in Siwu / Mark Dingemanse -- Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language / Olga Fischer -- Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language / Zhuanglin Hu -- Words in the mirror: analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian / Luca Nobile -- Part II. General theoretical approaches -- Un mélange genevois: tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure's Writings in General Lingustics / Jui-Pi Chien -- How to put art and brain together / Mark Changizi -- Image, diagram, and metaphor: unmined resource and unresolved questions / Vincent Colapietro -- Part III. Narrative grammatical structures -- The fearmers sowed seeds and hopes: element order in metaphorical phrases / Yeshayalhu Shen & Elad Kotzer -- Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts / Vyacheslav Yevseyev -- A burnin…
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