Form miming meaning: iconicity in language and literature

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use......Page 13
PART I General......Page 35
Why Iconicity?......Page 36
Action, Speech, and Grammar The Sublimation Trajectory......Page 70
Creating the World in Our Image A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and lconicist Desire......Page 91
On Semiotic Interplay Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and lndexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature......Page 115
Iconicity in Literature Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing......Page 141
PART II Sound and Rhythm......Page 153
What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity......Page 154
Imagination by ldeophones......Page 166
!conicity and Beyond in \"Lullaby for Jumbo\"Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm......Page 186
PART III Letters, Typography and Graphic Design......Page 201
Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts......Page 202
\'singing is silence\'Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E. E. Cummings......Page 228
Iconicity and Divine Likeness George Herbert\'s \"Coloss. 3.3\"......Page 244
Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams......Page 264
Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising......Page 279
Iconicity in the Digital World An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?......Page 312
PART IV Word-Formation......Page 332
Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-Formation......Page 333
Iconicity in Brand Names......Page 351
PART V Syntax and Discourse......Page 368
On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes......Page 369
Iconicity, Typology and Cognition......Page 399
The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction......Page 417
Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships lconicity as a Principle of Text Organization......Page 433
Author Index......Page 447
Subject Index......Page 456