Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface and acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. General framework
6. The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration 11
7. The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism 27
8. Iconicity as a key epistemic source of change in the self 47
9. Indexicality and iconization in Mock ing Spanish 63
10. Part II. Symmetry
11. Iconicity of symmetries in language and in literature 79
12. Chiastic iconicity 103
13. Tonal iconicity and narrative transformation 135
14. Part III. Visual and intermedial iconicity
15. Władysław Strzemiński’s theory of vision and Ronald Langacker’s theory of language 155
16. Iconicity for an iconoclast 173
17. This is not a pipe 193
18. Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures 213
19. Part IV. Gesture and sign language
20. Iconicity in gesture 245
21. Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground 265
22. Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German Sign Language 289
23. Part V. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism
24. Echoes of the past 331
25. The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic words 351
26. The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak 369
27. The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust 389
28. Author index 405
29. Subject index 407