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>>From Sign to Signing
Iconicity in language and literature

Volume 3

Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena / University of Amsterdam

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign
(2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International
Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies
collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is
given to the way non-linguistic visual and auditory signs (such as gestures
and bird sounds) are represented in language, and more specifically in
‘signed’ language, and how such signs influence semantic conceptualization.
Other studies examine more closely how visual signs and representations of
time and space are incorporated or reflected in literary language, in
fiction as well as (experimental) poetry. A further new approach concerns
intermedial iconicity, which emerges in art when its medium is changed or
another medium is imitated. A more abstract, diagrammatic type of iconicity
is again investigated, with reference to both language and literature: some
essays focus on the device of reduplication, isomorphic tendencies in word
formation and on creative iconic patterns in syntax, while others explore
numerical design in Dante and geometrical patterning in Dylan Thomas. A
number of theoretically-oriented papers pursue post- Peircean approaches,
such as the application of reader-response theory and of systems theory to
iconicity.



2003. Hb xiv, 441 pp. 90 272 2593 1 EUR 130.00 1 58811 288 8 USD 130.00



Preface and acknowledgments; List of contributors;

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; Jorgen Dines Johansen: Iconizing
literature; Piotr Sadowski: From signal to symbol: Towards a systems
typology of linguistic signs;

Author index; Subject index

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