Iconicity in Cognition and Across Semiotic Systems / edited by Sara Lenninger [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenninger, Sara, editor.

Series:

Iconicity in language and literature ; Volume 18.

Iconicity in Language and Literature Series ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

Summary:

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive Semiotics. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal, visual and gestural communication, these contributions discuss it from the point of view of human meaning-making, examined as a phenomenon that is experienced, embodied and often polysemiotic in nature.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. General framework

The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration

The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism

Iconicity as a key epistemic source of change in the self

Indexicality and iconization in Mock ing Spanish

Part II. Symmetry

Iconicity of symmetries in language and in literature

Chiastic iconicity

Tonal iconicity and narrative transformation

Part III. Visual and intermedial iconicity

Władysław Strzemiński’s theory of vision and Ronald Langacker’s theory of language

Iconicity for an iconoclast

This is not a pipe

Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures

Part IV. Gesture and sign language

Iconicity in gesture

Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground

Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German Sign Language

Part V. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism

Echoes of the past

The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic words

The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak

The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027257574

9027257574