From sign to signing : iconicity in language and literature 3 / edited by Wolfgang G. Muller, Olga Fischer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Müller, Wolfgang G., Author.

Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Müller, Wolfgang G.

Fischer, Olga.

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (3rd : 2001 : Jena, Germany)

Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature

Series:

Iconicity in Language and Literature ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iconicity (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Iconicity (Linguistics).

Philology--Congresses.

Philology.

Sign language--Congresses.

Sign language.

Semiotics--Congresses.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 441 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 given to the way non-linguistic visual and auditory signs (such as gestures and bird sounds) are represented in language, and more specifically in ‘signed’ language, and how such signs influence semantic conceptualization. Other studies examine more closely how visual signs and representations of time and space are incorporated or reflected in literary language, in fiction as well as (experimental) poetry. A further new approach concerns intermedial iconicity, which emerges in art when its medium is changed or another medium is imitated. A more abstract, diagrammatic type of iconicity is again investigated, with reference to both language and literature: some essays focus on the device of reduplication, isomorphic tendencies in word formation and on creative iconic patterns in syntax, while others explore numerical design in Dante and geometrical patterning in Dylan Thomas. A number of theoretically-oriented papers pursue post-Peircean approaches, such as the application of reader-response theory and of systems theory to iconicity.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments

List of contributors

Introduction

Part I

The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization

What You See Is What You Get

Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes

What imitates birdcalls?

Part II

Perspective in experimental shaped poetry

Where reading peters out

Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’)

“Vision and Prayer”

Diagrams in narrative

Part III

The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication

Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon

Creative syntax

Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English

Beatrice

How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry

Part IV

Intermedial iconicity in fiction

Iconicity and literary translation

Part V

Iconizing literature

From signal to symbol

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

"... a selection of papers that were originally given at the Third Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature organized by the University of Jena in co-operation wih the University of Amsterdam and the University of Zurich and held at Jena, 29-31 March, 2001"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161070

9781282161078

1282161075

9789027296313

9027296316