Form Miming Meaning:
Iconicity in Language and Literature

Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
(Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1999. ISBN 90 272 2179 0 (Eur), 1 55619 533 8 (US))



CONTENTS


Preface

Introduction

Olga Fischer and Max Nänny: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use


1. General

Ivan Fónagy
: Why Iconicity?
John Haiman: Action, Speech and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory.
Ralf Norrman: Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire.
John White: On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature.
Simon Alderson: Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing.


2. Sound and Rhythm

Andreas Fischer
: What, if Anything, Is Phonological Iconicity?
Hans Heinrich Meier: Imagination by Ideophone.
Walter Bernhart: Iconicity and Beyond in “Lullaby for Jumbo”: Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm.


3. Letters, Typography and Graphic Design

Max Nänny
: Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts
Michael Webster: “singing is silence”: Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E.Cummings.
Matthias Bauer: Iconicity and Divine Likeness: George Herbert’s “Coloss. 3.3”.
Peter Halter: Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams.
Andreas Fischer: Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology.
Eva Lia Wyss: Iconicity in the Digital World — an Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?


4. Word-Formation

Friedrich Ungerer
: Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-Formation.
Ingrid Piller: Iconicity in Brand Names.



5. Syntax and Discourse

Olga Fischer
: On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes.
Bernd Kortmann: Iconicity, Typology and Cognition.
Wolfgang G. Müller: The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction.
Elzbieta Tabakowska: Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships: Iconicity as a Principle of Text Organization (A Case Study).


Last Update: 20 March 2002