From Sign to Signing
Iconicity in language and literature 3
Edited by Wolfgang G. Müller (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) and Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins 2003. Hb xiv, 441 pp. 90 272 2593 1 EUR 130.00 1 58811 288 8 USD 130.00
Contents
Preface and acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction
Olga Fischer and Wolfgang G. Müller: ‘Introduction: From Signing back to Signs’
Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing
Klaudia Grote and Erika Linz: ‘The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization’
William J. Herlofsky: ‘What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach’
Axel Hübler: ‘Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes’
Keiko Masuda: ‘What imitates birdcalls? Two experiments on birdcalls and their linguistic representations’
Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping
John J. White: ‘Perspective in experimental shaped poetry: A semiotic approach’
Julian Moyle: ‘Where reading peters out: Iconic images in the entropic text’
Andreas Ohme: ‘Iconic repre-sentation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’)’
Matthias Bauer: ‘“Vision and Prayer”: Dylan Thomas and the Power of X’
Christina Ljungberg: ‘Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fiction’
Part III: Structural iconicity
C. Jac Conradie: ‘The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication’
Volker Harm: ‘Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon: Base and derivation in the history of German verbal word-formation’
Beate Hampe and Doris Schönefeld: ‘Creative syntax: Iconic principles within the symbolic’ Günter Rohdenburg: ‘Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English’
Wilhelm Pötters: ‘Beatrice: or The geometry of love’
Masako K. Hiraga: ‘How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in Haiku’
Part IV: Intermedial iconicity
Werner Wolf: ‘Intermedial iconicity in fiction: Tema con variazioni’
Elzbieta Tabakowska: ‘Iconicity and literary translation’
Part V: New applications of sign theory
Jørgen Dines Johansen: ‘Iconizing literature’
Piotr Sadowski: ‘From signal to symbol: Towards a systems typology of linguistic signs’
Author index
Subject index