Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games
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Hans Mooijer
Abstract
This paper deals with interactivity’s effects on certain instances of experiential iconicity in Gregory Weir’s digital reading game Silent Conversation. Two new terms are proposed in this paper: ‘shared experiential iconicity’ and ‘direct experiential iconicity’. The former term attempts to account for instances in which a reader’s interaction with signs in digital text enables a simulation of a text’s character’s interpreted emotive response to a given situation in the text. The latter term is one that describes a hypothetical situation in which signs are linked iconically to a reader’s psychological state during reading through a number of (bodily) measurements. This would lead to a continuous feedback loop being established between readers’ psychological states and signs, which could prove beneficial for readers with reading disorders.
Abstract
This paper deals with interactivity’s effects on certain instances of experiential iconicity in Gregory Weir’s digital reading game Silent Conversation. Two new terms are proposed in this paper: ‘shared experiential iconicity’ and ‘direct experiential iconicity’. The former term attempts to account for instances in which a reader’s interaction with signs in digital text enables a simulation of a text’s character’s interpreted emotive response to a given situation in the text. The latter term is one that describes a hypothetical situation in which signs are linked iconically to a reader’s psychological state during reading through a number of (bodily) measurements. This would lead to a continuous feedback loop being established between readers’ psychological states and signs, which could prove beneficial for readers with reading disorders.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Iconicity and conceptualization
- Iconicity by blending 13
- The Bashō code 25
- Iconicity in gotoochi-kitii ‘localized Hello Kitty’ 43
- Grammar-internal mimicking and analogy 63
- To draw a bow 引 83
- Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity 95
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Part II. Visual iconicity
- From diagrams to poetry 121
- The iconized letter 141
- The semantics of structure 159
- Visual iconicity in Latin poetry 173
- Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games 191
- Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space 211
- Model and icon 233
- Degrees of indetermination in intersemiotic translation 247
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Part III. Auditory iconicity
- Sound, image and fake realism 263
- Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies 275
- On some iconic strategies in concept albums within the Italian singer-songwriter tradition 295
- Iconically expressible meanings in Proto-Indo-European roots and their reflexes in daughter branches 311
- The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates 331
- Author index 351
- Subject index 355
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Iconicity and conceptualization
- Iconicity by blending 13
- The Bashō code 25
- Iconicity in gotoochi-kitii ‘localized Hello Kitty’ 43
- Grammar-internal mimicking and analogy 63
- To draw a bow 引 83
- Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity 95
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Part II. Visual iconicity
- From diagrams to poetry 121
- The iconized letter 141
- The semantics of structure 159
- Visual iconicity in Latin poetry 173
- Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games 191
- Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space 211
- Model and icon 233
- Degrees of indetermination in intersemiotic translation 247
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Part III. Auditory iconicity
- Sound, image and fake realism 263
- Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies 275
- On some iconic strategies in concept albums within the Italian singer-songwriter tradition 295
- Iconically expressible meanings in Proto-Indo-European roots and their reflexes in daughter branches 311
- The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates 331
- Author index 351
- Subject index 355
