Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. General
7. Three paradigms of iconicity research in language and literature 13
8. Iconicity of logic - and the roots of "iconicity" concept 35
9. Sound Meets Meaning
10. Iconic inferences about personality 57
11. Phonemes as images 71
12. Synaesthetic sound iconicity 93
13. What’s in a mimetic? 109
14. Iconicity in the syntax and lexical semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese 125
15. A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs 143
16. Language Meets Literature
17. Iconicity in translation 163
18. The days pass … 185
19. Visual, auditory, and cognitive iconicity in written literature 207
20. Don’t read too much into the runes 219
21. Grammar Meets Iconicity
22. Iconicity in question 241
23. Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective 259
24. Author index 275
25. Subject index 277