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’