Iconicity : East meets West / edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Rikkyo University ; William J. Herlofsky, Nagoya Gakuin University ; Kazuko Shinohara, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology ; Kimi Akita, Osaka University.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hiraga, Masako, editor.

Herlofsky, William J., editor.

Shinohara, Kazuko, 1959- editor.

Akita, Kimi, editor.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (9th : 2013 : Tokyo, Japan)

Series:

Iconicity in language and literature ; 14.

Iconicity in language and literature, 1873-5037 ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iconicity (Linguistics).

Semiotics.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper reexamines the notion of diagrammatic iconicity in grammar, i.e. the isomorphism of relational structure across form and meaning. After a quick survey of the various definitions of diagrammatic iconicity, some illustrations are given from coordinating constructions. It is shown that grammatical (a)symmetry in the expression of complex events corresponds to conceptual (a)symmetry. Next, diagrammatic iconicity is examined from an evolutionary viewpoint. Based on two considerations, namely, (i) that diagrammatic iconicity in grammar presupposes the bifurcation of form and meaning, and (ii) that analogical mapping between linguistic form and cognitive experience is a product of highly evolved cognitive capacity, it is claimed that diagrammatic iconicity is by no means "primitive" but a crucial species-specific trait of human language.

Contents:

Iconicity

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction. Ubiquity of iconicity: East Meets West

Part I. General

Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature

1. The icon in the framework of Peirce's classification of signs

1.1 Iconicity, similarity, the icon, and the object of the sign

1.2 Icon, index, symbol

1.3 The icon as a Firstness in Thirdness, the pure icon, and the hypoicon

1.4 The triadic subdivision of icons into images, diagrams, and metaphors

1.5 Icons as rhemes, qualisigns, sinsigns, and legisigns

2. The first paradigm of study in iconicity in language: Form mimes meaning

3. The second paradigm: Form mimes form

4. The third paradigm: Ubiquity of iconicity in verbal communication

4.1 The ubiquity of icons in interpretant signs

4.2 Words as symbols, indices, and icons: Peircean principles of cross-classification

4.3 The iconicity of words and predicates

References

Iconicity of logic - and the roots of the "iconicity" concept

1. Peircean iconicity

2. Iconicity in logic formalizations

3. Algebra of logic

4. Existential graphs

5. Beta graphs

6. Lines of identity

7. Iconicity in EGs vs. linear notation

8. Conclusion

Part II. Sound meets meaning

Iconic inferences about personality: From sounds and shapes

1. Introduction

1.1 General background and the current project

1.2 The current case study

2. Experiment I: Personality and sounds

2.1 Method

2.2 Result

2.3 Discussion

3. Experiment II: Personality and shapes

3.1 Method

3.2 Result and discussion

4. General discussion

Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism

2. The maluma-takete experiment.

3. Analysing the distinctive features

3.1 Articulatory analysis

3.2 Acoustic analysis

3.3 Results of the analysis of the features

4. Isolating the distinctive features

4.1 First experiment

4.2 Second experiment

5. General discussion

Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations

2. Research

2.1 Operationalization and hypotheses

2.2 Participants

2.3 Procedure

2.4 Materials

2.5 Apparatus

2.6 Processing of the data

2.7 Results

3. Discussion

4. Conclusion

What's in a mimetic? On the dynamicity of its iconic stem

2. Iconic links in Japanese mimetics

3. Lexical representations of mimetics

4. Stem-based morphology of mimetics

5. Dynamicity of mimetic stems: Their limits and potentials

5.1 Accentuation of reduplicative mimetics

5.2 Absence of intrinsically static mimetics

6. Fictivity: Apparent counterexamples

7. Conclusion

Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese

2. Preliminary

3. Frequency count

4. Phonomimes and the predicating nucleus

5. Conclusion

A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs

2. Data

3. Theme-subject verbs

4. Agent-subject verbs

5. Discussion

6. Concluding remarks

Data source

Part III. Language meets literature

Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias Hill

2. Tobias Hill, The Hidden: The excerpts and their iconic features

2.1 The first passage (p. 110)

2.2 The second passage (p. 290-291)

3. The attempts at iconic translations

3.1 The first passage

3.2 The second passage

4. Brief concluding remarks

References.

The days pass Iconicity and the experience of time

1. A little theory

2. The diaries

3. Conclusion

Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature

2. "Because I could not stop for Death"

3. Visual iconicity

4. Auditory iconicity

5. Cognitive iconicity

6. Conclusion

Note

Don't read too much into the runes

2. Characteristics of runic texts

2.1 General characteristics

2.2 Initiating the dedication

2.3 Deictic aspects

2.4 Identity and action

2.5 The rune master

2.6 Building bridges for the soul

2.7 Reader, be warned!

2.8 The iconicity of runic inscriptions

3. Runic text as oral narrative

4. In sum

Part IV. Grammar meets iconicity

Iconicity in question: The case of 'optional' prepositions in Lithuanian

1. The problem

2. Hypotheses

2.1 Cases and prepositions are relators

2.2 The semantics of iš and of the genitive in Lithuanian

3. Observations

3.1 Iš or the saliency of X

3.2 Genitive case or unmarked extraction

4. Analysis

5. Outcome

List of abbreviations

Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective

2. Iconicity in language: A reappraisal

3. Some illustrations of diagrammatic iconicity

3.1 Simultaneity and sequentiality

3.2 Asymmetry in logical connectives

4. Diagrammatic iconicity and language evolution

4.1 Preliminaries

4.2 Form-meaning separation

4.3 Higher-order analogy in humans

4.4 Analogy-based isomorphism between form and meaning

5. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Note on glossing

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268839

9027268835