Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. Phonic dimensions
6. The effect of iconicity flash blindness 3
7. Iconic treadmill hypothesis 15
8. Tracking linguistic primitives 39
9. Continuity and change 63
10. Iconicity in English literary neologisms 85
11. Part II. Cognitive dimensions
12. Toward a theory of poetic iconicity 99
13. The ocean of surging emotion 119
14. Ekphrasis, cognition, and iconicity 135
15. Part III. Multimodal dimensions
16. Deleuze and the Baroque diagram 153
17. Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity 167
18. Iconicity, ‘intersemiotic translation’ and the sonnet in the visual poetry of Avelino De Araújo 191
19. Reading across the gutter 209
20. The role of iconicity in package design 229
21. Part IV. Performative dimensions
22. Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature 249
23. Iconization of sociolinguistic variables 263
24. Performative iconicity 287
25. Part V. New dimensions of iconicity
26. Why notational iconicity is a form of operational iconicity 303
27. Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability 321
28. The iconicity of literary analysis 331
29. Author index 345
30. Subject index 347