Dimensions Of Iconicity

Author : Angelika Zirker,Matthias Bauer,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265180

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Dimensions of Iconicity by Angelika Zirker,Matthias Bauer,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives in order to analyse, for example, the diagrammatic interplay of written texts and images. Contributions on performative dimensions of iconicity focus on Buddhist mantras, Hollywood films, and the dynamics of rhetorical structures in Shakespeare. Last but not least, the volume also addresses new ways of considering iconicity, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.

Author : Raffaele Simone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285706

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Iconicity in Language by Raffaele Simone Pdf

Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism, naturalism, etc.) takes this position, which differentiates it very clearly from generative linguistics. One of the basic assumptions of such approaches is that language structure includes some non-arbitrary aspects, from the phonological through the textual level, and a great amount of research has occurred in the last decade regarding the “iconic aspects” of language(s). This volume focuses on generally neglected dimensions of language and semiotic activity, featuring contributions by philosophers, linguists, semioticians, and psychologists. After tracing the tradition of iconicity in the history of linguistic thought, the central section is devoted to specific analyses emphasizing the role of non-arbitrary phenomena in language foundation and linguistic structure. Specifically discussed are numeration systems, the gestural systems of communication among deaf people, the genesis of writing in children, and inter-ethnic communication.

Author : Max Nänny,Olga Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027221790

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Form Miming Meaning by Max Nänny,Olga Fischer Pdf

Annotation Presents selected papers from a March 1997 symposium held in Zurich, in sections on general topics, sound and rhythm, typography and graphic design, word-formation, and syntax and discourse. Studies explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of scholars is especially interested in how far the primary code, the code of grammar, is influenced by iconic motivation and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code. Specific subjects include imagination by ideophones, the visual poetry of e. e. cummings, and iconic use of syntax in fiction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781527548862

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Iconicity in Language by Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera Pdf

In linguistics, as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity between the form of a linguistic sign and its meaning. This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity in both spoken and signed languages, including definitions of all the relevant concepts and explanations of significant iconic words and expressions, and brief summaries of the contents and main proposals of 30 significant works in the history of iconicity research. It also provides definitions and exemplifications of the principles governing linguistic iconicity and brief overviews of iconic words and expressions in 11 language families and in more than 50 spoken and signed languages all over the world. The book contains 678 entries and more than 8,500 examples drawn from 400 languages, and will appeal to scholars and students interested in general linguistics, the history of linguistics, language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and semiotics.

Author : Pamela Perniss,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261410

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Operationalizing Iconicity by Pamela Perniss,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.

Author : Costantino Maeder,Olga Fischer,William J. Herlofsky,Université Catholique de Louvain,Universiteit van Amsterdam,Universität Zürich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027232253

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Outside-in, Inside-out by Costantino Maeder,Olga Fischer,William J. Herlofsky,Université Catholique de Louvain,Universiteit van Amsterdam,Universität Zürich Pdf

This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity 'inside-out', some suggesting that 'less-is-more'; others focus on the cognitive factors 'inside' the brain that are important for the iconic phenomena that are produced in the 'outside' world. In addition this volume includes a paper related to iconicity in music and its interaction with language. Other papers range from the theoretical issues involved in the evolution of language, to those that offer many 'inside-out' claims, such as claiming that nouns are derived from pronouns, and as such should more properly be called 'pro-pronouns'. Also, this volume includes perhaps the first English-language analysis of the iconic aspects of sound symbolism in a prayer from the Koran. This is a truly interdisciplinary collection that should turn some of the notions of iconicity in language and literature 'outside-in' and 'inside-out'.

Author : Olga Fischer,Max Nänny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225745

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The Motivated Sign by Olga Fischer,Max Nänny Pdf

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language, in literary texts and other forms of verbal discourse. They investigate, among other subjects, the semiotic foundations of iconicity, the role played by iconicity in language evolution and in the way words are positioned syntactically. Special consideration is given to the iconic nature of metaphor and the 'mise en abyme', to iconically motivated punctuation and other typographic matters such as the manipulation of colour, fonts and spacing in advertising and in poetry. Other studies show how iconicity influences Shakespeare's rhetoric, the structural design of Margaret Atwood's writings and the changing fashions in fictional landscape description. Thus, these analyses of 'the motivated sign' represent yet another strong challenge to “Saussure's dogma of arbitrariness” (Jakobson).

Author : Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832505342

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Sign Language Research Sixty Years Later: Current and Future Perspectives by Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana Pdf

Author : Klaas Willems,Ludovic De Cuypere
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027243430

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Naturalness and Iconicity in Language by Klaas Willems,Ludovic De Cuypere Pdf

This volume examines unresolved issues in iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics, linguistic iconicity in semiotics, iconic structures in Sign Languages, natural and unnatural sound patterns, the iconic nature of parts of speech, the relation between (un)markedness and naturalness, and lexical and syntactic iconicity.

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781797684

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How and why Books Matter by James Washington Watts Pdf

The iconic books project -- How books matter: three dimensions of scriptures -- Iconic books and texts -- Relic texts -- Iconic digital texts: how ritual makes virtual texts material -- Desecrated scriptures and the news media -- Ancient iconic texts -- Rival iconic texts: Ten Commandments monuments and the U.S. constitution -- Book aniconism: the codex, translation and beliefs about immaterial texts -- Mass literacy and scholarly expertise -- Why books matter: preservation and disposal

Author : David McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226514642

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Gesture and Thought by David McNeill Pdf

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill’s acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an “imagery-language dialectic” that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the “imagery” and components of “language.” The smallest element of this dialectic is the “growth point,” a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.

Author : Marge E. Landsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110882926

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Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes by Marge E. Landsberg Pdf

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Books
ISBN : 1845539850

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Iconic Books and Texts by James Washington Watts Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions.

Author : Jelena Bogdanović
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000410846

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Icons of Space by Jelena Bogdanović Pdf

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian Alexei Lidov. As well as his numerous publications, Lidov is well known for developing the concept of hierotopy, an innovative approach for studying the creation of sacred spaces. Hierotopy and the related concepts of ‘spatial icons’ and ‘image-paradigms’ emphasize fundamental questions about icons, including what defines them as structures, spaces, and experiences. Chapters in this volume engage with the overarching theme of icons of space by employing, contrasting, and complementing methods of hierotopy with more traditional approaches such as iconography. Examinations of icons have traditionally been positioned within strictly historical, theological, socio-economic, political, and art history domains, but this volume poses epistemological questions about the creation of sacred spaces that are instead inclusive of multi-layered iconic ideas and the lived experiences of the creators and beholders of such spaces. This book contributes to image theory and theories of architecture and sacred space. Simultaneously, it moves beyond colonial studies that predominantly focus on questions of religion and politics as expressions of privileged knowledge and power. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in hierotopy and art history.

Author : Toine van den Hoogen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781036402846

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Public Theology and the Importance of Visual Culture by Toine van den Hoogen Pdf

This book asserts the importance of conducting research on visual culture phenomena in public theology. As we increasingly communicate and express our social and cultural identities through images in today’s culture and economy, visual culture has become a burgeoning area of study and research in many academic institutions. In light of this, public theology must engage with this complex field. The concept of iconicity is raising fresh inquiries within the realm of public theology, which is already rife with hermeneutic concerns. These questions must be revisited, as images compel us to reassess our ongoing approach to the interpretation of religion. The potency of images is an uncharted and potent force, propelling public theology towards a future that is yet to be discovered.