The days pass …
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Anne Freadman
Abstract
This paper presents a study of three diaries, written by French Jews during the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany, when, as elsewhere in Europe, they were subject to severe persecution. It is also a case study, in that the examples serve to investigate the semiotics of their genre. I read these diaries for the experience of time that they reveal, for which iconicity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. I shall start briefly with the diary of Saül Castro (Castro 2007), who was held for several months in Drancy and Compiègne, and then released. Then, at greater length, those of Jacques Biélinky (Biélinky 1997), and Hélène Berr (Berr 2008), who were both deported and killed. For reasons inherent in the circumstances under which they were written, all these diaries show an acute awareness of time.
Abstract
This paper presents a study of three diaries, written by French Jews during the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany, when, as elsewhere in Europe, they were subject to severe persecution. It is also a case study, in that the examples serve to investigate the semiotics of their genre. I read these diaries for the experience of time that they reveal, for which iconicity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. I shall start briefly with the diary of Saül Castro (Castro 2007), who was held for several months in Drancy and Compiègne, and then released. Then, at greater length, those of Jacques Biélinky (Biélinky 1997), and Hélène Berr (Berr 2008), who were both deported and killed. For reasons inherent in the circumstances under which they were written, all these diaries show an acute awareness of time.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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General
- Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature 13
- Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" concept 35
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Sound Meets Meaning
- Iconic inferences about personality 57
- Phonemes as images 71
- Synaesthetic sound iconicity 93
- What’s in a mimetic? 109
- Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese 125
- A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs 143
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Language Meets Literature
- Iconicity in translation 163
- The days pass … 185
- Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature 207
- Don’t read too much into the runes 219
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Grammar Meets Iconicity
- Iconicity in question 241
- Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective 259
- Author index 275
- Subject index 277
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
General
- Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature 13
- Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" concept 35
-
Sound Meets Meaning
- Iconic inferences about personality 57
- Phonemes as images 71
- Synaesthetic sound iconicity 93
- What’s in a mimetic? 109
- Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese 125
- A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs 143
-
Language Meets Literature
- Iconicity in translation 163
- The days pass … 185
- Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature 207
- Don’t read too much into the runes 219
-
Grammar Meets Iconicity
- Iconicity in question 241
- Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective 259
- Author index 275
- Subject index 277
