From Sign to Signing - Couverture rigide

Müller, Wolfgang G.; Fischer, Olga

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027225931 ISBN 13 : 9789027225931

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9027225931
• ISBN 13: 9789027225931
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 455