Dimensions of Iconicity

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Title page

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Dimensions of iconicity

Part I. Phonic dimensions

The effect of iconicity flash blindness: An empirical study

1. Background

2. Data

3. Participants

4. Experiment

5. Hypotheses

5.1 Hypothesis 1

5.2 Hypothesis 2

6. Results

6.1 Results 1: Our hypotheses

6.2 Results 2: Unexpected patterns

7. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Iconic treadmill hypothesis: The reasons behind continuous onomatopoeic coinage

1. Introduction

2. The iconic treadmill hypothesis

3. The iconic lexicon: Some explanatory notes on onomatopoeia, sound symbolism, phonesthemes, and ideophones

3.1 Onomatopoeic words

3.2 Sound symbolic words

3.3 Phonesthemic sound symbolism

3.4 Ideophones

4. The de-iconization process

4.1 De-iconization of form

4.2 De-iconization of meaning

4.3 Stages of de-iconization

5. Rates of de-iconization and new iconic coinage: The iconic treadmill

6. The driving force for the iconic treadmill

Abbreviations

References

Tracking linguistic primitives: The phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairs

1. Introduction

1.1 Lexical universals

1.2 The oppositional relation

1.3 Phonosemantics

2. Method

2.1 Language sampling

2.2 Concept sampling

2.3 Sound classification and quantification

3. Results

3.1 Related phoneme distribution

3.2 Deviation from average

4. Discussion

4.1 Embodiment and phonosemantics

4.2 The oppositional relationship

4.3 Semantic origins

4.4 Explanatory suggestions for the semantic relations

5. Conclusion

References

Author query

Continuity and change: On the iconicity of Ablaut Reduplication (AR)

1. Introduction

2. English AR as a prosodic template

3. An iconic analysis of AR expressions

4. Sound iconicity in AR

5. Movement iconicity in AR

6. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Author Query

Iconicity in English literary neologisms: (Based on R. Dahl’s fairy tale The BFG)

1. Introduction

2. Primary and secondary motivation of literary neologisms

3. Material

4. The phonetics of the BFG’s speech

5. The grammar of the BFG’s language

6. The lexis of the BFG’s speech

6.1 General considerations

6.2 Depicting iteration

6.3 Depicting size

6.4 Depicting emotional attitude

6.5 Imitating sounds

7. Experimental study of iconicity in literary neologisms

8. Conclusion

References

Part II. Cognitive dimensions

Toward a theory of poetic iconicity: The ontology of semblance

1. Introduction

2. Iconicity

3. Iconicity in poetry

4. Semblance in Brendan Galvin’s Flute

5. Conclusion

References

The ocean of surging emotion: The iconic representation of Symbolist transcendence in the poem “Feather Grass” by Konstantin Bal’mont

1. Introduction

2. The poem

3. From emotion to iconicity via blending of the senses

4. Phonetic, semantic and prosodic features of the poem

5. The structure of the poem

6. Conclusion

References

Ekphrasis, cognition, and iconicity: An analysis of W. D. Snodgrass’s “Van Gogh: ‘The Starry Night’”

1. Introduction

2. An image of the village

3. The sky

4. An “imaginative leap”

5. Conclusions

References

Part III. Multimodal dimensions

Deleuze and the Baroque diagram

1. Introduction

2. A graphic relation set between thinking and its physical shape

3. Unlocking areas of sensation

4. The intermediate character of the painterly diagram

5. The Melvillian diagram

6. Cartographic writing

References

Author query

Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity: An interdisciplinary model

1. Introduction

2. Material, spatiotemporal, and sensorial modes

3. Cross-modal iconicity

4. Degrees of similarity and iconicity

5. From image to metaphor

6. Image schemas

7. Conclusion

References

Iconicity, ‘intersemiotic translation’ and the sonnet in the visual poetry of Avelino De Araújo

1. Introduction: Visual poetry in contemporary art

2. Avelino de Araújo’s visual sonnets and Livro de sonetos

2.1 The visual sonnet: Tradition and experimentation

2.2 Politically and socially committed sonnets

2.3 The arbitrariness of the sign and its multiplicity of meanings

2.4 Irony and playfulness in Araújo’s visual sonnets

2.5 Further experiments with the sonnet

3. Conclusion: The future of the sonnet in the digital age

References

Appendix

Reading across the gutter: Tintin’s interrupted railway journeys

1. Introduction

2. Immersion or interruption? Poulet’s phenomenology of reading

3. Reading comics: Gutters, gaps, interruptions

4. Tintin’s trains: Diagrams of interrupted reading

5. (Detour) communication and transport: Michel Serres

6. Interference: Accidents, derailments, explosions

7. Modernity and global space: The blind spots of Tintin’s world(s)

Author query

References

The role of iconicity in package design: A case of the contemporary marketing of traditional Japanese confectionery

1. Introduction

2. Analytical data: Traditional and modernised wagashi

2.1 The history of Japanese confectionery, wagashi

2.2 Data: Traditional and modern wagashi brands

3. Data analysis

3.1 Typography

3.2 Iconic resemblance between packages and wagashi

4. Conclusion: Iconicity in Japanese contemporary marketing

Acknowledgments

References

Author query

Part IV. Performative dimensions

Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantra

1. Introduction

2. Mantra

3. Visual iconicity (form miming form)

4. Auditory iconicity (form miming form)

5. Chronological iconicity (form miming meaning)

6. Articulatory iconicity (form miming meaning)

7. Final comments

References

Author query

Iconization of sociolinguistic variables: The case of archetypal female characters in classic Hollywood cinema

1. Introduction

2. Iconicity and iconization

3. Methods

3.1 Selection of films and actresses

3.2 Selection and analysis of the data

4. Results

4.1 Inter-speaker variation: Pitch

4.2 Intra-speaker variation: Pitch

4.3 Variation in voice quality

4.4 The distinctive packaging of suprasegmental variables

5. Iconization and archetypes

5.1 Iconization and femmes fatales

5.2 Iconicity and dumb blondes

5.3 Iconicity and screwball heroines

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix

Author query

Performative iconicity: Chiasmus and parallelism in William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece

1. Introduction: Performative iconicity

2. Parallelism, chiasmus, and multiple perspective

2.1 Tarquin’s “trustless wings of false desire”: The opening of the poem

2.2 “doth Tarquin lie revolving / The sundry dangers of his will’s obtaining”: Chiasmus and apo koinou

2.3 “O modest wantons, wanton modesty”: Chiasmus and the reconciliation of contrast

3. The iconic performance of contrast in unity

4. Conclusion

References

Author query

Part V. New dimensions of iconicity

Why notational iconicity is a form of operational iconicity

1. The phonographic dogma

2. Three blind spots of the speech-centred concept of writing

3. Overcoming the phonographic dogma

4. Notational iconicity

5. Spatiality

6. An example

7. Graphism

8. Interpretationality

9. Mechanizability

10. Conclusion

References

Author query

Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability

1. Preliminaries

2. Intended ambiguity and intended diagrammatic iconicity

3. Case study

3.1 The original: Homo homini lupus

3.2 Travesties

3.3 Mini-corpus: Three titles taken from Gazeta Wyborcza

4. Conclusions

References

Author query

The iconicity of literary analysis: The case of Logical Form

1. Introduction

1.1 The agenda of our paper is twofold:

1.2 This is where the second item on our agenda will come in:

2. What is iconic about a semantic representation of the sentence meaning?

3. Alternative (allegorical) interpretations

4. Semantic representation as a touchstone of any other “deep” analysis

Acknowledgments

References

Author query

Author index

Subject index