Research Catalog

Title

Semblance and signification / edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg.

Author

Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (7th : 2009 : Victoria University (Toronto, Canada))

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Michelucci, Pascal
• Fischer, Olga
• Ljungberg, Christina, 1949-

Description

xii, 427 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Iconicity in language and literature v. 10.

Subject

Iconicity (Linguistics) > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers given at the Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, hosted by Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Canada) and held on the Victoria College campus, 9-13 June, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Pascal Michelucci -- Part I. Word froms, word formation, and meaning -- Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words / Kimi Akita -- Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of lingustic material: the case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan sign language / William J. Herlofsky -- Ezra Pound among the Mawu: ideophones and iconicity in Siwu / Mark Dingemanse -- Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language / Olga Fischer -- Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language / Zhuanglin Hu -- Words in the mirror: analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian / Luca Nobile -- Part II. General theoretical approaches -- Un mélange genevois: tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure's Writings in General Lingustics / Jui-Pi Chien -- How to put art and brain together / Mark Changizi -- Image, diagram, and metaphor: unmined resource and unresolved questions / Vincent Colapietro --^
• Part III. Narrative grammatical structures -- The fearmers sowed seeds and hopes: element order in metaphorical phrases / Yeshayalhu Shen & Elad Kotzer -- Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts / Vyacheslav Yevseyev -- A burning world of war: how iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms / Xinxin Zhao -- Part IV. Cognitive poetics -- Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: divergence and perceptual forces in poetry / Reuven Tsur -- mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: a cognitive approach / Han-liang Chang -- Iconicity in conceptual blending: material anchors in William Morris's News from Nowhere / David Glyn Wilson -- Part V. Acoustic and visual iconicity -- Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: some modes of interaction / John J. White -- Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy / Gabriele Rippl -- Words, like shells, are signs as well as things / Heilna di Plooy --^
• Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: an analysis of Kingsley Amis's The Green Man / Andrew James -- Part VI. Intermedial iconicity -- The iconic indexicality of photography / Piotr Sadowski -- Unbinding the text: intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Christina Ljungberg -- Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin / Costantino Maeder -- John Irving's A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor as '(mult-)i-conic' works of art / Christine Schwanecke.

ISBN

• 9789027243461 (alk. paper)
• 9789027284822 (eb)

LCCN

^^2011026794

OCLC

• 733755710
• SCSB-11069234

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library