Form Miming Meaning

Author : Max Nänny,Olga Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : C. Jac Conradie,Ronél Johl,Marthinus Beukes,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027288417

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Signergy by C. Jac Conradie,Ronél Johl,Marthinus Beukes,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti, and as thematically diverse as the Pilgrim’s Progress and the poetry of e.e. cummings. Applications reference both language and linguistics as well as literature and literary theory – and related fields such as sign language and translation; the former approached from the point of view of Japan Sign Language, the latter with reference to translations of the Koran and the Sesotho Bible, as well as modern German and English Bible translations. On the language side, the intricate relationships between sound symbolism and etymology, and between analogy and grammaticalization are examined in depth. On the literary side, the iconic effects of techniques such as enjambment and metrical inversion are considered, but also the ways in which an understanding of iconicity can open up meanings in complex poetry, like that of the Afrikaans poet T.T. Cloete – in this particular instance three poems inspired by figures as diverse as Dante, Paul Klee and the pop icon Marilyn Monroe. In view of the fact that form is able to mime meaning and meaning itself can be mimed by meaning, the theoretical question is asked – on the basis of a wide range of examples from literature, language, music and other sign-systems – whether meaning can also mime form. An introduction to the work of H.C.T. Müller, an early scholar in the field of iconicity, highlights a regrettably little known South African contribution to the development of iconicity theory.

Author : Axel Hübler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253978

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The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation by Axel Hübler Pdf

This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by courtesy books and personal documents of the time, indirect evidence by developments in the English lexicon. The rationale of the argument is cognitively grounded; given the integral role of gestures in thinking-for-speaking, it rests on an isomorphism between gestural and prosodic behavior that is established semiotically and elaborated by insights from neurocognitive frequency theory and task dynamics. The proposal is rounded off by an illustration from present-day conversational data and the proof of its adaptability to current theories of language change. The cross-disciplinary approach addresses all those interested in (historical) pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, cultural semantics, semiotics, or language change.

Author : Olga Fischer,Max Nänny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Winfried Nöth,Nina Bishara
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198836

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Self-Reference in the Media by Winfried Nöth,Nina Bishara Pdf

This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.

Author : Angelika Zirker,Matthias Bauer,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Ludovic De Cuypere
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290779

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Limiting the Iconic by Ludovic De Cuypere Pdf

Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of iconicity in language change. An extensive analysis is provided of some basic but nonetheless fundamental questions relating to iconicity in language, including: what is a linguistic sign and how are linguistic signs different from signs in general? What is an iconic sign and how may iconicity be involved in language? How does iconicity pertain to the relation between language and cognition? This book offers a new and comprehensive theoretical framework for iconicity in language. It is argued that the linguistic sign is fundamentally arbitrary, but that iconicity may be involved on a secondary level, adding extra meaning to an utterance.

Author : Ronald K. S. Macaulay
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : 9042017643

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Extremely Common Eloquence by Ronald K. S. Macaulay Pdf

Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives. The wide range of devices employed by the speakers and the high quality of the examples provide convincing evidence to reject any possible negative evaluation of working-class speech on the basis of details of non-standard pronunciation and grammar. In addition to this display of linguistic accomplishment the examples examined show how these skills are employed to communicate important aspects of Scottish identity and culture. Although the political status of Scotland has fluctuated over the past four hundred years, the sense of Scottish identity has remained strong. Part of that sense of identity comes from a form of speech that remains markedly distinct from that of the dominant neighbour to the south. There are cultural attitudes that indicate a spirit of independence that is consistent with this linguistic difference. The ways in which the speakers in this book express themselves reveal their beliefs in egalitarianism, independence, and the value of hard work. Extremely Common Eloquence demonstrates how the methods of linguistic analysis can be combined with an investigation into cultural values.

Author : Sara Lenninger,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg,Elżbieta Tabakowska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257574

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Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems by Sara Lenninger,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg,Elżbieta Tabakowska Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Percy
Publisher : SEE Editrice Firenze
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8890190442

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Reading and comprehension academically speaking. How to find and make connections between the lines. Per le Scuole superiori by Margaret Percy Pdf

Author : El?zbieta Tabakowska,Christina Ljungberg,Olga Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027243417

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Insistent Images by El?zbieta Tabakowska,Christina Ljungberg,Olga Fischer Pdf

Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel approaches to aural iconicity investigate a wide range of phenomena from phonological iconicity to the role of iconic features in discourse, in the nineteenth century practice of reading aloud, in the almost magic incantations of fin de siècle poetry and in Tolkien's invented languages. Several papers examine the function of iconicity in visual and avant-garde poetry, where iconic features allow a reduction of means, which, paradoxically, generates textual diversification and complexity. A discussion of iconic text strategies shows how texts are comprehended through iconic holistic transfer from complex natural and action patterns. 'Liberature', which integrates text, image and physical space, is another novel area of study, as are the investigations into the iconic properties of film and of multimedia performance. Film is intrinsically iconic, while at the same time being, like photography, indexical; in multimedia performance, on the other hand, iconicity functions intermedially by both integrating and reflecting processes of perception and conceptualization. These last two new fields of inquiry further enhance this truly interdisciplinary volume's explorations of icons as 'insistent images'.

Author : Werner Wolf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004346642

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Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014) by Werner Wolf Pdf

This volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, which have contributed to establishing ‘intermediality’ as an internationally recognized research field, providing a widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity.

Author : Pascal Michelucci,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284822

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Semblance and Signification by Pascal Michelucci,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.

Author : Annette Lust
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810845938

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From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond by Annette Lust Pdf

One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book explores the evolution of mime and pantomime from the Greeks to the 20th Century, depicting the role of mime in dance, clowning, the cinema, and verbal theatre throughout the centuries. With over sixty illustrations, this worldwide study is indispensable for the student, teacher, or fan of mime.

Author : Pamela Perniss,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.