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: Iconicity in-side-out 1
6. Theoretical issues
7. Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception 15
8. On the role of iconic motivation in conceptual metaphor: Has metaphor theory come full circle? 39
9. Relative motivation in Gustave Guillaume’s theory 67
10. The beginnings of iconicity in the work of F. T. Marinetti 79
11. Negative or inverted iconicity
12. Mimesis lost – meaning gained 97
13. Non-supplemented blanks in works of literature as forms of ‘iconicity of absence’ 113
14. Photographs in narrative 133
15. Coconut shells and creaking doors: A semiotic approach to the avant-garde radio play’s sound-effects 151
16. Iconicity and sound
17. The iconic-cognitive role of fricatives and plosives: A phono-semantic analysis of a classical Arabic prayer Al-falaq 173
18. Iconic uses of rhyme 195
19. Iconic strategies in Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi : "Altri canti d’amor" 217
20. Iconicity and structure
21. Frozen locutions – frozen dimensions: LEFT and RIGHT in English, German and Russian 241
22. Some iconic correlations in language and their impact on the parole-langue dichotomy 267
23. The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present-day English causatives 287
24. Linguistic representations of motion events: What is signifier and what is signified? 307
25. Now you see it, now you don’t: Imagic diagrams in the spatial mapping of signed (JSL) discourse 323
26. Iconicity and narrative
27. Pirandello’s Si Gira : Iconicity and titles 349
28. Narrative structures and iconicity in Yasmina Reza’s Une désolation 359
29. Iconicity as a function of point of view 375
30. Iconic functions of phraseological units and metaphor 389
31. Author index 411
32. Subject index 417