The Motivated Sign.
Iconicity in Language and Literature 2.
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
(Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2001. ISBN 90 272 2574 5 (Eur), 1 58811 003 6 (US))
Contents
Introduction
Max Nänny and Olga Fischer: Introduction. Veni, Vidi, Vici
Part I: General
Winfried Nöth: ‘Semiotic Foundations of Iconicity in Language and Literature’
John White: ‘The Semiotics of the mise en abyme.
William J. Herlofsky: ‘Good Probes: Icons, Anaphors, and the Evolution of Language’
Part II: Sounds and Beyond
Piotr Sadowski: ‘The Sound as an Echo to the Sense: The Iconicity of English
gl-Words’
Ralf Norrman: ‘On Natural Motivation in Metaphors: The Case of the Cucurbits’
Earl R. Anderson: ‘Old English Poetic Texts and Their Latin Sources: Iconicity in
Cædmon’s Hymn and The Phoenix’
Part III: Visual Iconicity: Writing, Typography and the Use of Images
Anne Henry: ‘Iconic Punctuation: Ellipsis Marks in a Historical Perspective’
Max Nänny: ‘Iconic Functions of Long and Short Lines’
Robbie Goh: ‘Iconicity in Advertising Signs: Motive and Method in Miming "The
Body"’
Loretta Innocenti: ‘Iconoclasm and Iconicity in Seventeenth Century English Poetry’
Part IV: Iconicity in Grammatical Structures
Jac Conradie: ‘Structural Iconicity: The English S- and OF-Genitive’
Olga Fischer: ‘The Position of the Adjective in (Old) English from an Iconic Perspective’
Frank Jansen and Leo Lentz: ‘Present Participles as Iconic Expressions’
Jean-Jacques Lecercle: ‘Of Markov Chains and Upholstery Buttons: "Moi, madame,
vôtre chien"’
Part V: Iconicity in Textual Structures
Wolfgang G. Müller: ‘Iconicity and Rhetoric: A Note on the Iconic Force
of Rhetorical Figures in Shakespeare’
Werner Wolf: ‘The Emergence of Experiential Iconicity and Spatial Perspective in
Landscape Descriptions in English Fiction’
Christina Ljungberg: ‘Iconic Dimensions in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry and Prose’