Form miming meaning : iconicity in language and literature

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Form miming meaning; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use; PART I General; Why Iconicity?; Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory; Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire; On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature; Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing; PART II Sound and Rhythm What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity?Imagination by Ideophones; Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm; PART III Letters, Typography and Graphic Design; Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts; 'singing is silence' Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E.E. Cummings; Iconicity and Divine Likeness; Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology; Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?; PART IV Word-Formation Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-FormationIconicity in Brand Names; PART V Syntax and Discourse; On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes; Iconicity, Typology and Cognition; The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction; Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships; Author Index; Subject Index