Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Texts

✍ Scribed by Masako K. Hiraga (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 274
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-21
Methodological Framework....Pages 22-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Manifestation of Metaphor-Icon Links: Prototypical Examples....Pages 57-90
Vision as Meaning....Pages 91-126
Sound as Meaning....Pages 127-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Interplay of Metaphor and Iconicity in Grammar and Discourse....Pages 173-193
Iconicity and Written Language....Pages 194-218
Conclusions....Pages 219-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-261

✦ Subjects

Stylistics; Poetry and Poetics; Asian Literature; Asian Languages

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