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