Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space
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Alexanne Don
Abstract
Sets of strategies labelled ‘markers’ were identified in email texts based on features which have not traditionally been considered conventional or desirable in written text due to its more ‘reflective’, more editable affordances. The analysis attended both to their interpersonal function as well as their use as iconic of the technologically mediated context in which they appear. In these contexts participants address an unseen audience, where both response and reduced potential misunderstandings are necessary. The iconicity of these textual markers is related to participants’ need to frame their contributions with recognised forms which make reference to the same types of hesitations, politeness markers, and acknowledgement of heteroglossic space common in synchronous contexts. Such markers then become not only iconic of those real-time cues, but also iconic of the context of interaction itself.
Abstract
Sets of strategies labelled ‘markers’ were identified in email texts based on features which have not traditionally been considered conventional or desirable in written text due to its more ‘reflective’, more editable affordances. The analysis attended both to their interpersonal function as well as their use as iconic of the technologically mediated context in which they appear. In these contexts participants address an unseen audience, where both response and reduced potential misunderstandings are necessary. The iconicity of these textual markers is related to participants’ need to frame their contributions with recognised forms which make reference to the same types of hesitations, politeness markers, and acknowledgement of heteroglossic space common in synchronous contexts. Such markers then become not only iconic of those real-time cues, but also iconic of the context of interaction itself.
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
