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The Motivated Sign

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language, in literary texts and other forms of verbal discourse. They investigate, among other subjects, the semiotic foundations of iconicity, the role played by iconicity in language evolution and in the way words are positioned syntactically. Special consideration is given to the iconic nature of metaphor a
eBook, English, 2001
John Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001
1 online resource (401 pages)
9789027299338, 9781282163515, 9786612163517, 9027299331, 1282163515, 6612163518
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The Motivated Sign; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: veni, vidi, vici; PART I. General; Semiotic foundations of iconicity in language and literature; The semiotics of the mise-en-abyme; Good probes: Icons, anaphors, and the evolution of language; PART II. Sounds and beyond; The sound as an echo to the sense: The iconicity of English gl-words; On natural motivation in metaphors: The case of the cucurbits; Old English poetic texts and their Latin sources: Iconicityin Cædmon 's Hymn and The Phoenix
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