Elleström Lars, Fischer Olga, Ljungberg Christina (Editors). Iconic Investigations

John Benjamins, 2013. — x, 357 pp. — (Iconicity in Language and Literature). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7223-2.The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume also contains studies of media types such as music and visual images that are integrated into the overall project to deepen the understanding of iconicity – the creation of meaning by way of similarity relations. Iconicity is a fundamental but relatively unexplored part of signification in language and other media types. During the last decades, the study of iconicity has emerged as a vital research area with far-reaching interdisciplinary scope and the volume should be of interest for students and researchers interested in scholarly fields such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor studies, poetry, intermediality, and multimodality.Introduction: Instrumental and formal iconic signs
Iconicity and conceptualization
Iconicity by blending
The Bashō code: Metaphor and diagram in two haikuabout silence
Iconicity in gotoochi-kitii‘localized Hello Kitty’
Grammar-internal mimicking and analogy
To draw a bow 引: A dimension of iconicity in metaphor variation at the level of linguistic instantiation
Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity
Visual iconicity
From diagrams to poetry: Peircean iconicity and diagrammaticalization strategies in Klaus Høeck’s poetry
The iconized letter: Russian Cubo-Futurist and French Lettriste experiments
The semantics of structure: Iconicity in the poetry of William Carlos Williams and E. E. Cummings
Visual iconicity in Latin poetry
Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games: Interactivity’s implications in Weir’s Silent Conversation
Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space
Model and icon
Degrees of indetermination in intersemiotic translation
Auditory iconicity
Sound, image and fake realism: Sound figures in audiovisuals
Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies
On some iconic strategies in concept albums within the Italian singer-songwriter tradition: Storia di un impiegato(1973) by Fabrizio De André and Il giorno aveva cinque teste(1973) by Roberto Roversi and Lucio Dalla
Iconically expressible meanings in Proto-Indo-European roots and their reflexes in daughter branches
The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammaticalcorrelates