Iconicity East meets West

This paper reexamines the notion of diagrammatic iconicity in grammar, i.e. the isomorphism of relational structure across form and meaning. After a quick survey of the various definitions of diagrammatic iconicity, some illustrations are given from coordinating constructions. It is shown that gramm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hiraga, Masako (-), Herlofsky, William J., Shinohara, Kazuko, 1959-, Akita, Kimi
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2015]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Iconicity in language and literature ; 14.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39256728*spi
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  • Iconicity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction. Ubiquity of iconicity: East Meets West; Part I. General; Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature; 1. The icon in the framework of Peirce's classification of signs ; 1.1 Iconicity, similarity, the icon, and the object of the sign ; 1.2 Icon, index, symbol ; 1.3 The icon as a Firstness in Thirdness, the pure icon, and the hypoicon ; 1.4 The triadic subdivision of icons into images, diagrams, and metaphors.
  • 1.5 Icons as rhemes, qualisigns, sinsigns, and legisigns 2. The first paradigm of study in iconicity in language: Form mimes meaning ; 3. The second paradigm: Form mimes form ; 4. The third paradigm: Ubiquity of iconicity in verbal communication ; 4.1 The ubiquity of icons in interpretant signs ; 4.2 Words as symbols, indices, and icons: Peircean principles of cross-classification ; 4.3 The iconicity of words and predicates ; References ; Iconicity of logic
  • and the roots of the "iconicity" concept; 1. Peircean iconicity ; 2. Iconicity in logic formalizations ; 3. Algebra of logic.
  • 1. Introduction 2. The maluma-takete experiment ; 3. Analysing the distinctive features ; 3.1 Articulatory analysis ; 3.2 Acoustic analysis ; 3.3 Results of the analysis of the features ; 4. Isolating the distinctive features ; 4.1 First experiment ; 4.2 Second experiment ; 5. General discussion ; References ; Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations; 1. Introduction ; 2. Research ; 2.1 Operationalization and hypotheses ; 2.2 Participants ; 2.3 Procedure ; 2.4 Materials ; 2.5 Apparatus ; 2.6 Processing of the data ; 2.7 Results ; 3. Discussion ; 4. Conclusion ; References.
  • What's in a mimetic? On the dynamicity of its iconic stem1. Introduction ; 2. Iconic links in Japanese mimetics ; 3. Lexical representations of mimetics ; 4. Stem-based morphology of mimetics ; 5. Dynamicity of mimetic stems: Their limits and potentials ; 5.1 Accentuation of reduplicative mimetics ; 5.2 Absence of intrinsically static mimetics ; 6. Fictivity: Apparent counterexamples ; 7. Conclusion ; References ; Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese; 1. Introduction ; 2. Preliminary ; 3. Frequency count ; 4. Phonomimes and the predicating nucleus.