Insistent Images

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El?zbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, Olga Fischer
John Benjamins Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 360 páginas
Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel approaches to aural iconicity investigate a wide range of phenomena from phonological iconicity to the role of iconic features in discourse, in the nineteenth century practice of reading aloud, in the almost magic incantations of fin de siècle poetry and in Tolkien's invented languages. Several papers examine the function of iconicity in visual and avant-garde poetry, where iconic features allow a reduction of means, which, paradoxically, generates textual diversification and complexity. A discussion of iconic text strategies shows how texts are comprehended through iconic holistic transfer from complex natural and action patterns. 'Liberature', which integrates text, image and physical space, is another novel area of study, as are the investigations into the iconic properties of film and of multimedia performance. Film is intrinsically iconic, while at the same time being, like photography, indexical; in multimedia performance, on the other hand, iconicity functions intermedially by both integrating and reflecting processes of perception and conceptualization. These last two new fields of inquiry further enhance this truly interdisciplinary volume's explorations of icons as 'insistent images'.

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Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test
17
Iconic thumbs pinkies and pointers 337
37
The physical basis for phonological iconicity 57
57
Reading aloud and Charles Dickens aural iconic prose style 73
73
Iconicity and the divine in the fin de siècle poetry of W B Yeats
91
Guillaume Apollinaires
113
Forms of restricted iconicity in modern avantgarde poetry
129
Ecoiconicity in the poetry and poemgroups of E E Cummings
155
Iconicity in native vs foreign
211
Path sorting weighting kaleidoscope
229
Palindromic figurations in literary narratives
247
Iconicity and the grammarlexis interface
269
The case of disclaimers
289
Double negation and iconicity
301
Laurie Andersons White Lily
323
Author index
347

The language of film is a matrix of icons
173
A new literary genre?
191

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