14.424, Books: Pragmatics, Signs: Muller, Fischer (eds.)

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Date:  Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:05:06 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  From Sign to Signing: Muller, Fischer (eds.)

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Date:  Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:05:06 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  From Sign to Signing: Muller, Fischer (eds.)

Title: From Sign to Signing
Subtitle: Iconicity in language and literature. Volume 3.
Series Title:

Publication Year: 2003

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z_116

Editor: Wolfgang G. Müller, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Editor: Olga  Fischer, University of Amsterdam

Hardback: ISBN: 1588112888, Pages: xiv, 441 pp., Price: USD 130.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027225931, Pages: xiv, 441 pp., Price: EUR 130.00

Abstract:

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.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments  ix-x
List of contributors  xi-xiii
Introduction: From Signing back to Signs
     Olga Fischer and Wolfgang G. Müller  1-20
Part I: Auditory and visual signs and signing  21
The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization
     Klaudia Grote and Erika Linz  23-39
What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity and metaphor in the visual
language of written and signed poetry: A cognitive poetic approach
     William J. Herlofsky  41-61
Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes
     Axel Hübler  63-77
What imitates birdcalls? Two experiments on birdcalls and their
linguistic representations
     Keiko Masuda  79-103
Part II: Visual iconicity and iconic mapping  105
Perspective in experimental shaped poetry: A semiotic approach
     John J. White  107-129
Where reading peters out: Iconic images in the entropic text
     Julian Moyle  131-153
Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokins novel The
Queue (Ochered)þ
     Andreas Ohme  155-167
Vision and Prayer: Dylan Thomas and the Power of X
     Matthias Bauer  169-183
Diagrams in narrative: Visual strategies in contemporary fiction
     Christina Ljungberg  185-201
Part III: Structural iconicity  203
The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication
     C. Jac Conradie  205-225
Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon: Base and derivation in the
history of German verbal word-formation
     Volker Harm  227-243
Creative syntax: Iconic principles within the symbolic
     Beate Hampe and Doris Schönefeld  245-263
Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English
     Guenter Rohdenburg  265-287
Beatrice: or The geometry of love
     Wilhelm Pötters  289-316
How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in Haikuþ
     Masako K. Hiraga  317-335
Part IV: Intermedial iconicity  337
Intermedial iconicity in fiction: Tema con variazioni
     Werner Wolf  339-360
Iconicity and literary translation
     Elbieta Tabakowska  361-376
Part V: New applications of sign theory  377
Iconizing literature
     Jorgen Dines Johansen  379-410
>>From signal to symbol: Towards a systems typology of linguistic signs
     Piotr Sadowski  411-424
Author index  425
Subject index  427

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science
		Discourse Analysis
		Pragmatics

Language Family:  Sign Language

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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