The Motivated sign

by Fischer, Olga Nänny, Max

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Title Statements

Full title :The Motivated sign / edited by Olga Fischer, Max Nänny.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000, ©2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000, ©2001.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 387 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1588110036, 9781588110039, 9027225745, 9789027225740
oclc:ocm45023155
LC Classification:P99.4.I26
Dewey Decimal:401/.41

Introduction : veni, vidi, vici / Max Nänny and Olga Fischer -- Semiotic foundations of iconicity in language and literature / Winfried Nöth -- The semiotics of the mise-en-abyme / John J. White -- Good probes : icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language / William J. Herlofsky -- The sound as an echo to the sense : the iconicity of English gl- words / Piotr Sadowski -- On natural motivation in metaphors : the case of the cucurbits / Ralf Norrman -- Old English poetic texts and their Latin sources : iconicity in Cædmon's Hymn and The Phoenix / Earl R. Anderson -- Iconic punctuation : ellipsis marks in a historical perspective / Anne C. Henry -- Iconic functions of long and short lines / Max Nänny -- Iconicity in advertising signs : motive and method in miming "the body" / Robbie B.H. Goh -- Iconoclasm and iconicity in seventeenth-century English poetry / Loretta Innocenti -- Structural iconicity : the English -S- and OF-genitives / C. Jac Conradie -- The position of the adjective in (Old) English from an iconic perspective / Olga Fischer -- Present participles as iconic expressions / Frank Jansen and Leo Lentz -- Of Markov chains and upholstery buttons : "Moi, madame, votre chi…