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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 and bird sounds) are represented in language, and more specifically in "signed" language, and how such signs influence semantic conceptualization. Other studies examine more closely how visual signs and representations of time and space are incorporated or reflected in literary language, in fiction as well as (experimental) poetry. A further new approach concerns intermedial iconicity, which emerges in art when its medium is changed or another medium is imitated. A more abstract, diagrammatic type of iconicity is again investigated, with reference to both language and literature: some essays focus on the device of reduplication, isomorphic tendencies in word formation and on creative iconic patterns in syntax, while others explore numerical design in Dante and geometrical patterning in Dylan Thomas. A number of theoretically-oriented papers pursue post-Peircean approaches, such as the application of reader-response theory and of systems theory to iconicity.
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From Sign to Signing From Sign to Signing Iconicity in language andliterature 3 Edited by Wolfgang G. Müller Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Olga Fischer University of Amsterdam JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (3rd: 2001: Jena, Germany) From sign to signing: iconicity in language and literature 3 / edited by Wolfgang G. Müller, Olga Fischer p. cm. “... a selection of papers that were originally given at the Third Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature organized by the University of Jena in co-operation with the University of Amsterdam and the University of Zurich and held at Jena, 29-31 March, 2001”--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Iconicity (Linguistics)--Congresses. 2. Philology--Congresses. 3. Sign language--Congresses. 4. Semiotics--Congresses. I. Müller, Wolfgang G. II. Fisher, Olga. III. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. IV. Title. P99.4.I26 S96 2002 302.2--dc21 ISBN 90 272 2593 1 (Eur.) / 1 58811 288 8 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) 2002028004 © 2003 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA "moy"> w h"" iTITLE "Table of contents" "> SUBJECT "" ntro"> "> KEYWORDS "" SIZE HEIGHT "220" WIDTH "150" VOFFSET "4"> Table of contents Preface andacknowled gments ix List of contributors xi Introduction: From Signing back to Signs Olga Fischer and Wolfgang G. Müller 1 P I Auditory and visual signs and signing The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization Klaudia Grote and Erika Linz 23 What You See Is What You Get: Iconicity andmetaphor in the visual language of written andsignedpoetry: A cognitive poetic approach William J. Herlofsky 41 Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes Axel Hübler What imitates birdcalls?: Two experiments on birdcall