Beatrice

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgments ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I
7. The influence of sign language iconicity on semantic conceptualization 23
8. What You See Is What You Get 41
9. Spatial iconicity in two English verb classes 63
10. What imitates birdcalls? 77
11. Part II
12. Perspective in experimental shaped poetry 105
13. Where reading peters out 129
14. Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’) 153
15. “Vision and Prayer” 167
16. Diagrams in narrative 183
17. Part III
18. The iconicity of Afrikaans reduplication 203
19. Diagrammatic iconicity in the lexicon 225
20. Creative syntax 243
21. Aspects of grammatical iconicity in English 263
22. Beatrice 287
23. How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry 317
24. Part IV
25. Intermedial iconicity in fiction 339
26. Iconicity and literary translation 361
27. Part V
28. Iconizing literature 379
29. From signal to symbol 411
30. Author index 425
31. Subject index 433