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Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
To the memory of Lars Elleström
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Part I. General framework
The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration
Introduction
1. The "great iconicity debate"
2. Primary and secondary iconic signs
3. Peirceanism from the ground up
4. Experimental approaches
5. A process approach to meaning
6. The interplay of iconization and structuration
7. Conclusion
References
The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism
1. Introduction
2. Primary iconicity in sound symbolism
2.1 Universality
2.2 Early acquisition
3. Emergent iconicity in sound symbolism
3.1 Language-specificity
3.2 Later acquisition
4. Shift from primary to emergent iconicity
4.1 From primary iconicity to arbitrariness
4.2 From arbitrariness to systematicity to emergent iconicity
5. Implications for the symbol grounding problem
Acknowledgements
Funding
The abbreviations used in this chapter are as follows
References
Iconicity as a key epistemic source of change in the self: The film The Lives of Others revisited in the light of triadic semiotics
1. Introduction: From a deadening Law to life-enhancing spontaneity
2. Iconicity and the emergence of "variety and diversity" in the universe
3. The transgression of iconicity against the Law and its submissive indexical signs
4. The working of indexicality in the realm of the Law: In the semiotic penal colony
5. The intervention of art in the conversion process of a State official
6. Conclusion: Once upon an iconic instant…
References
Indexicality and iconization in Mocking Spanish: Linguistic resemblance and reproduction of the White Order.
1. Introduction
2. Indexicality of Mock Spanish
3. In and out: Iconization
4. A narrow range of keys: Intertextuality, resemantization, erasure
5. The White public space
6. Fractal recursivity and myth of the White Order
7. Language differentiation and ideology through metapragmatics
References
Part II. Symmetry
Iconicity of symmetries in language and in literature
1. Types of symmetry exemplified by letter types
1.1 Mirror symmetry, vertical and horizontal
1.2 Rotational symmetry
1.3 Translational symmetry
1.4 Antisymmetry
1.5 Iconicity of the forms of symmetry in Alice's Wonderland
2. The iconicity of alloreferential and self-referential symmetries in language
2.1 Alloreferential iconicity
2.2 Self-referential iconicity
2.3 George Herbert's alloreferentially symmetric Wings
3. The self-referential iconicity of the title pages of incunabula
4. The iconicity of palindromic words
5. Token-type iconicity and symmetry
6. Gertrude Stein's translational symmetries
7. A final remark on symmetry and iconicity in spoken language
References
Chiastic iconicity: Refiguring symmetry
1. Introduction
2. Chiastic diagrammatization
3. Chiastic 'symmetry'
4. 'Chiastic' symmetry
5. 'Chiastic' meaning
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
Glossary of rhetorical figures mentioned in the chapter
References
Tonal iconicity and narrative transformation: Transverse embodied chiasmus in Sylvia Plath and Dolly Parton
1. Introduction
2. Embodied chiasmus in language, literature, and culture
3. Chiastic peripeteia in Sylvia Plath's 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'
4. Chiastic anagnorisis in Dolly Parton's 'Sad Ass Songs'
5. Tonal iconicity and transverse embodied chiasmus
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References.
Part III. Visual and intermedial iconicity
Władysław Strzemiński's theory of vision and Ronald Langacker's theory of language: Iconic dimensions of visual perception and grammar
1. Introduction
2. Contour vision
3. Silhouette vision
4. Cubic vision
5. Chiaroscuro vision
6. Full empirical vision
7. Coda
Acknowledgements
References
Iconicity for an iconoclast: Susan Howe's critique of representational practices
1. Abstraction and iconicity
2. Tracing targets: Iconicity within an iconoclastic poetics
3. Mind and matter
4. The world in the word
Acknowledgements
References
This is not a pipe: Iconicity in Magritte's language paintings
1. Magritte's words and images
2. This is not a pipe: Magritte's view
3. This is not a pipe: The subliminal iconicity of an unraveled calligram
4. Dismantling the pipe in the painted sentence
5. The interpretation of dreams
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures: An intermedial comparison
1. Introduction
2. Motion images in signed language discourse: Highly iconic structures
3. Superimposition as a simultaneous combination of two or more motion images
4. Forms and functions of superimpositions in German Sign Language (DGS)
5. Forms and functions of superimpositions in motion pictures
6. Intermedial comparison
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
DGS Sources
Motion pictures (DVD editions)
Part IV. Gesture and sign language
Iconicity in gesture: How Czech children and adults use iconic gestures to deal with a gap between mental and linguistic representations of motion events
1. Iconic gesture, speech, and mind
2. Gesturing when talking about motion events
3. The present study: Focus on speakers of Czech.
4. Methodology
5. Questions and hypotheses
6. Quantitative results
7. Analysis of the results and discussion
8. Summary and conclusion
References
Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground: Iconic modification in German sign language (DGS)
1. Introduction
2. Research context
3. Iconic modification as a productive use of established signs in context
4. Methodology
5. Categories of showing signs
5.1 Image activation
5.2 Image extension
5.3 Change of image-producing technique
6. Discussion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German sign language
1. Introduction
1.1 Sign language verb types
1.2 Iconic mappings
2. Methods
2.1 Data set
2.2 Data analysis and categorization
3. Iconic mappings
3.1 Body-anchored verb forms
3.2 Neutral verb forms
3.3 Agreement verbs and spatial verbs
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Appendix 1
Part V. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
Echoes of the past: Old English onomatopoeia
1. Introduction
2. Material and research methods
2.1 Material used
2.2 Methods used
3. Studying imitative words in Holthausen's Altenglisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
3.1 Preservation of Old English imitative words
3.2 Old English imitative words according to the de-iconization stages
4. Old and present-day English imitative lexicons
4.1 Quantitative analysis of Old and present-day English imitative lexicons
4.2 Core-periphery models of Old and Present-day English imitative vocabularies according to de-iconization stages
5. Imitative words in Anglo-Saxon poems
6. Some remarks on the further historical development of the Old English imitative vocabulary
7. Conclusions
Abbreviations
Funding
References.
Dictionaries
The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic words
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies and aim of this study
3. Method
4. Findings
5. Psychological motivation and information sharing
6. Linguistic motivation
7. Typological possibilities
8. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Illustration
The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak
1. Introduction
2. Monosyllabic ideophones in Korean
2.1 Morphology
2.2 Phonology
2.3 Epistemic modality
3. Data
4. Epistemic modality marker ttak
5. The form-meaning mappings in epistemic ttak
6. Conclusion
The abbreviations and symbols used in this paper are as follows
References
Corpus
The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust: A phono-semiotic study
1. Introduction
2. NLEs that realize the emotion of disgust
3. HNLEs interpreted as semiotic signs
4. Data collection and analysis
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Author index
Subject index.
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
To the memory of Lars Elleström
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Part I. General framework
The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration
Introduction
1. The "great iconicity debate"
2. Primary and secondary iconic signs
3. Peirceanism from the ground up
4. Experimental approaches
5. A process approach to meaning
6. The interplay of iconization and structuration
7. Conclusion
References
The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism
1. Introduction
2. Primary iconicity in sound symbolism
2.1 Universality
2.2 Early acquisition
3. Emergent iconicity in sound symbolism
3.1 Language-specificity
3.2 Later acquisition
4. Shift from primary to emergent iconicity
4.1 From primary iconicity to arbitrariness
4.2 From arbitrariness to systematicity to emergent iconicity
5. Implications for the symbol grounding problem
Acknowledgements
Funding
The abbreviations used in this chapter are as follows
References
Iconicity as a key epistemic source of change in the self: The film The Lives of Others revisited in the light of triadic semiotics
1. Introduction: From a deadening Law to life-enhancing spontaneity
2. Iconicity and the emergence of "variety and diversity" in the universe
3. The transgression of iconicity against the Law and its submissive indexical signs
4. The working of indexicality in the realm of the Law: In the semiotic penal colony
5. The intervention of art in the conversion process of a State official
6. Conclusion: Once upon an iconic instant…
References
Indexicality and iconization in Mocking Spanish: Linguistic resemblance and reproduction of the White Order.
1. Introduction
2. Indexicality of Mock Spanish
3. In and out: Iconization
4. A narrow range of keys: Intertextuality, resemantization, erasure
5. The White public space
6. Fractal recursivity and myth of the White Order
7. Language differentiation and ideology through metapragmatics
References
Part II. Symmetry
Iconicity of symmetries in language and in literature
1. Types of symmetry exemplified by letter types
1.1 Mirror symmetry, vertical and horizontal
1.2 Rotational symmetry
1.3 Translational symmetry
1.4 Antisymmetry
1.5 Iconicity of the forms of symmetry in Alice's Wonderland
2. The iconicity of alloreferential and self-referential symmetries in language
2.1 Alloreferential iconicity
2.2 Self-referential iconicity
2.3 George Herbert's alloreferentially symmetric Wings
3. The self-referential iconicity of the title pages of incunabula
4. The iconicity of palindromic words
5. Token-type iconicity and symmetry
6. Gertrude Stein's translational symmetries
7. A final remark on symmetry and iconicity in spoken language
References
Chiastic iconicity: Refiguring symmetry
1. Introduction
2. Chiastic diagrammatization
3. Chiastic 'symmetry'
4. 'Chiastic' symmetry
5. 'Chiastic' meaning
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
Glossary of rhetorical figures mentioned in the chapter
References
Tonal iconicity and narrative transformation: Transverse embodied chiasmus in Sylvia Plath and Dolly Parton
1. Introduction
2. Embodied chiasmus in language, literature, and culture
3. Chiastic peripeteia in Sylvia Plath's 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'
4. Chiastic anagnorisis in Dolly Parton's 'Sad Ass Songs'
5. Tonal iconicity and transverse embodied chiasmus
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References.
Part III. Visual and intermedial iconicity
Władysław Strzemiński's theory of vision and Ronald Langacker's theory of language: Iconic dimensions of visual perception and grammar
1. Introduction
2. Contour vision
3. Silhouette vision
4. Cubic vision
5. Chiaroscuro vision
6. Full empirical vision
7. Coda
Acknowledgements
References
Iconicity for an iconoclast: Susan Howe's critique of representational practices
1. Abstraction and iconicity
2. Tracing targets: Iconicity within an iconoclastic poetics
3. Mind and matter
4. The world in the word
Acknowledgements
References
This is not a pipe: Iconicity in Magritte's language paintings
1. Magritte's words and images
2. This is not a pipe: Magritte's view
3. This is not a pipe: The subliminal iconicity of an unraveled calligram
4. Dismantling the pipe in the painted sentence
5. The interpretation of dreams
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures: An intermedial comparison
1. Introduction
2. Motion images in signed language discourse: Highly iconic structures
3. Superimposition as a simultaneous combination of two or more motion images
4. Forms and functions of superimpositions in German Sign Language (DGS)
5. Forms and functions of superimpositions in motion pictures
6. Intermedial comparison
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
DGS Sources
Motion pictures (DVD editions)
Part IV. Gesture and sign language
Iconicity in gesture: How Czech children and adults use iconic gestures to deal with a gap between mental and linguistic representations of motion events
1. Iconic gesture, speech, and mind
2. Gesturing when talking about motion events
3. The present study: Focus on speakers of Czech.
4. Methodology
5. Questions and hypotheses
6. Quantitative results
7. Analysis of the results and discussion
8. Summary and conclusion
References
Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground: Iconic modification in German sign language (DGS)
1. Introduction
2. Research context
3. Iconic modification as a productive use of established signs in context
4. Methodology
5. Categories of showing signs
5.1 Image activation
5.2 Image extension
5.3 Change of image-producing technique
6. Discussion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German sign language
1. Introduction
1.1 Sign language verb types
1.2 Iconic mappings
2. Methods
2.1 Data set
2.2 Data analysis and categorization
3. Iconic mappings
3.1 Body-anchored verb forms
3.2 Neutral verb forms
3.3 Agreement verbs and spatial verbs
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Appendix 1
Part V. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
Echoes of the past: Old English onomatopoeia
1. Introduction
2. Material and research methods
2.1 Material used
2.2 Methods used
3. Studying imitative words in Holthausen's Altenglisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
3.1 Preservation of Old English imitative words
3.2 Old English imitative words according to the de-iconization stages
4. Old and present-day English imitative lexicons
4.1 Quantitative analysis of Old and present-day English imitative lexicons
4.2 Core-periphery models of Old and Present-day English imitative vocabularies according to de-iconization stages
5. Imitative words in Anglo-Saxon poems
6. Some remarks on the further historical development of the Old English imitative vocabulary
7. Conclusions
Abbreviations
Funding
References.
Dictionaries
The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic words
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies and aim of this study
3. Method
4. Findings
5. Psychological motivation and information sharing
6. Linguistic motivation
7. Typological possibilities
8. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Illustration
The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak
1. Introduction
2. Monosyllabic ideophones in Korean
2.1 Morphology
2.2 Phonology
2.3 Epistemic modality
3. Data
4. Epistemic modality marker ttak
5. The form-meaning mappings in epistemic ttak
6. Conclusion
The abbreviations and symbols used in this paper are as follows
References
Corpus
The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust: A phono-semiotic study
1. Introduction
2. NLEs that realize the emotion of disgust
3. HNLEs interpreted as semiotic signs
4. Data collection and analysis
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Author index
Subject index.