Author index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. Word forms, word formation, and meaning
6. Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words 3
7. Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material 19
8. Ezra Pound among the Mawu 39
9. Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language 55
10. Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language 83
11. Words in the mirror 101
12. Part II. General theoretical approaches
13. Un mélange genevois 135
14. How to put art and brain together 149
15. Image, diagram, and metaphor 157
16. Part III. Narrative grammatical structures
17. The farmers sowed seeds and hopes 175
18. Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts 191
19. A burning world of war 211
20. Part IV. Cognitive poetics
21. Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance 233
22. Mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry 251
23. Iconicity in conceptual blending 269
24. Part V. Acoustic and visual iconicity
25. Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel 291
26. Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic’s Dime-Store Alchemy 313
27. Words, like shells, are signs as well as things 327
28. Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity 343
29. Part VI. Intermedial iconicity
30. The iconic indexicality of photography 355
31. Unbinding the text 369
32. Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin 389
33. John Irving’s A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams’ The Door in the Floor as ‘(mult-)i-conic’ works of art 405
34. Author index 423
35. Subject index 425