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Insistent Images (Iconicity in Language and Literature, Volume 5)

Insistent Images (Iconicity in Language and Literature, Volume 5)

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Insistent Images (Iconicity in Language and Literature, Volume 5)

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By Elzbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, Olga Fischer
  • Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Number Of Pages:   360
  • Publication Date:   2007-03-14
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN:   9027243417
  • ISBN-13 / EAN:   9789027243416
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’. Table of contents Preface and acknowledgements
   
vii
List of Contributors
   
ix–xiii
Introduction: Insistent Images
Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
   
1–14
PART I. Iconicity and grammaticalization
   
15
Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test: A cognitivist perspective
Paul Bouissac
   
17–35
Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers: The grammaticalization of animate-entity handshapes in Japan sign language
William J. Herlofsky
   
37–53
PART II. Iconicity and the aural
   
55
The physical basis for phonological iconicity
Keiko Masuda
   
57–71
Reading aloud and Charles Dickens’ aural iconic prose style
Tammy Ho Lai Ming
   
73–89
Iconicity and the divine in the fin de siècle poetry of W.B. Yeats
Sean Pryor
   
91–102
Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy? Iconicity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented languages
Joanna Podhorodecka
   
103–110
PART III. Iconicity and the visual
   
111
The beauty of life and the variety of signs: Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‘lyrical ideogram’ La Cravate et la montre
Peter Gahl
   
113–127
Forms of restricted iconicity in modern avant-garde poetry
John J. White
   
129–154
Eco-Iconicity in the poetry and poem-groups of E.E. Cummings
Etienne Terblanche and Michael Webster
   
155–172
The language of film is a matrix of icons
Strother Purdy
   
173–189
Liberature: A new literary genre?
Katarzyna Bazarnik
   
191–208
PART IV. Iconicity and conceptualization
   
209
Meaning on the one and on the other hand: Iconicity in native vs. foreign signed languages
Meike Adam, Wiebke Iversen, Erin Willkinson and Jill P. Morford
   
211–227
Iconic text strategies: Path, sorting & weighting, kaleidoscope
Friedrich Ungerer
   
229–245
‘Damn mad’: Palindromic figurations in literary narratives
Christina Ljungberg
   
247–265
PART V. Iconicity and structure
   
267 Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface
Dylan Glynn
   
269–288
Iconicity in the coding of pragmatic functions: The case of disclaimers in argumentative discourse
Angelika Bergien
   
289–300
Double negation and iconicity
Ludovic De Cuypere, Johan van der Auwera and Klaas Willems
   
301–320
PART VI. Iconicity and multimedia / intertextuality
   
321
Iconicity in multimedia performance: Laurie Anderson’s White Lily
Sibylle Moser
   
323–345
Author index
   
347–352
Subject index
   
353–360
 
 
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