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Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature / edited by Max Nänny, Olga Fischer.

Title
Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature / edited by Max Nänny, Olga Fischer.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Fischer, Olga.
  • Nänny, Max.
Description
xxxvi, 443 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Iconicity (Linguistics)
  • Philology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use / Olga Fischer and Max Nanny -- Why Iconicity? / Ivan Fonagy -- Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory / John Haiman -- Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire / Ralf Norrman -- On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature / John J. White -- Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing / Simon J. Alderson -- What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity? / Andreas Fischer -- Imagination by Ideophones / Hans Heinrich Meier -- Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm / Walter Bernhart.
ISBN
  • 1556195338 (alk. paper)
  • 9027221790 (Eur.)
LCCN
^^^99010763^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library