Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Iconicity in Language

✍ Raffaele Simone (Ed.) 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism, natur

Signergy (Iconicity in Language and Lite

📁 Signergy (Iconicity in Language and Literature)

✍ C. Jac Conradie, Ronel Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fisher, Christina Ljungberg 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti,

From Sign to Signing: v. 3: Iconicity in

📁 From Sign to Signing: v. 3: Iconicity in Language and Literature (Iconicity in language & literature)

✍ Wolfgang G. Muller, Olga Fischer 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

This volume 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

From Sign to Signing: v. 3: Iconicity in

📁 From Sign to Signing: v. 3: Iconicity in Language and Literature (Iconicity in language & literature)

✍ Wolfgang G. Muller, Olga Fischer 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

This volume 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

Semblance and Signification (Iconicity i

📁 Semblance and Signification (Iconicity in Language and Literature)

✍ Pascal Michelucci, Dr. Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of

Semblance and Signification (Iconicity i

📁 Semblance and Signification (Iconicity in Language and Literature)

✍ Pascal Michelucci, Dr. Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of