Insistent Images

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El?bieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, Olga Fischer
John Benjamins Publishing, 2007 M03 14 - 361 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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Introduction
1
Part I Iconicity and grammaticalization
15
Part IIIconicity and the aural
55
Part III Iconicity and the visual
111
Part IV Iconicity and conceptualization
209
Part V Iconicity and structure
267
Part VI Iconicity and multimedia intertextuality
321
Author index
347
Subject index
353
The series Iconicity in Language and Literature
361
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