Iconicity

East meets West

Editors

Masako K. Hiraga

| Rikkyo University

William J. Herlofsky

| Nagoya Gakuin University

Kazuko Shinohara

| Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

Kimi Akita

| Osaka University

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Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary texts; and iconic motivation in grammar, the chapters show the diversity and dynamics of iconicity research, ranging from iconicity as a driving force in language structure and change, to the various uses of images, diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text, in both narrative and poetic forms, as well as on all varieties of discourse, including the visual and the oral.

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.14

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements	vii–viii
List of contributors	ix–x
Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets West Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita	1–9
General
Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature Winfried Nöth	13–34
Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" concept Frederik Stjernfelt	35–53
Sound Meets Meaning
Iconic inferences about personality: From sounds and shapes Shigeto Kawahara, Kazuko Shinohara and Joseph Grady	57–70
Phonemes as images: An experimental inquiry into shape-sound symbolism applied to the distinctive features of French Luca Nobile	71–91
Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations between acoustic features of phonemes and emotional behavior Jan Auracher	93–108
What’s in a mimetic?: On the dynamicity of its iconic stem Takeshi Usuki and Kimi Akita	109–123
Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese Kiyoko Toratani	125–141
A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs Takashi Sugahara and Shoko Hamano	143–160
Language Meets Literature
Iconicity in translation: Two passages from a novel by Tobias Hill Imogen Cohen and Olga Fischer	163–184
The days pass …: Iconicity and the experience of time Anne Freadman	185–205
Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature: The example of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death” Lars Elleström	207–218
Don’t read too much into the runes C. Jac Conradie	219–238
Grammar Meets Iconicity
Iconicity in question: The case of 'optional' prepositions in Lithuanian Hélène De Penanros	241–257
Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective Toshio Ohori	259–274
Author index	275
Subject index	277–279

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Subjects

Linguistics

Phonology

Semiotics

Theoretical linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014045249 | Marc record