Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (376 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Iconicity in language and literature v. 5
Parallel Title:
Print version Insistent Images
DDC:
302.21
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel approaches to aural iconicity investigate a wide range of phenomena from phonological iconicity to the role of iconic features in discourse, in the nineteenth century practice of reading aloud, in the almost magic incantations of fin de siècle poetry and in Tolkien's invented languages. Several paper
Description / Table of Contents:
Insistent Images; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. Iconicity and grammaticalization; Putting grammaticalizationto the iconicity test; Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers; Part II.Iconicity and the aural; The physical basis forphonological iconicity; Reading aloud and Charles Dickens's aural iconic prose style; Iconicity and the divine in the fin de siècle poetry of W. B. Yeats; Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy?; Part III. Iconicity and the visual; The beauty of life and the variety of signs
Description / Table of Contents:
Forms of restricted iconicity in modern avant-garde poetryEco-iconicity in the poetry and poem-groups of E. E. Cummings; The language of film is a matrix of icons; Liberature: A new literary genre?; Part IV. Iconicity and conceptualization; Meaning on the one andon the other hand; Iconic text strategies; 'Damn Mad'; Part V. Iconicity and structure; Iconicity and the grammar-lexis interface; Iconicity in the coding of pragmatic functions; Double negation and iconicity; Part VI. Iconicity and multimedia / intertextuality; Iconicity in multimedia performance; Author index; Subject index
Description / Table of Contents:
The series Iconicity in Language and Literature
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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