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: Insistent Images 1
6. PART I. Iconicity and grammaticalization
7. Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test 17
8. Iconic thumbs, pinkies and pointers 37
9. PART II. Iconicity and the aural
10. The physical basis for phonological iconicity 57
11. Reading aloud and Charles Dickens’ aural iconic prose style 73
12. Iconicity and the divine in the fin de siècle poetry of W.B. Yeats 91
13. Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy? 103
14. PART III. Iconicity and the visual
15. The beauty of life and the variety of signs 113
16. Forms of restricted iconicity in modern avant-garde poetry 129
17. Eco-Iconicity in the poetry and poem-groups of E.E. Cummings 155
18. The language of film is a matrix of icons 173
19. Liberature 191
20. PART IV. Iconicity and conceptualization
21. Meaning on the one and on the other hand 211
22. Iconic text strategies 229
23. ‘Damn mad’ 247
24. PART V. Iconicity and structure
25. Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface 269
26. Iconicity in the coding of pragmatic functions 289
27. Double negation and iconicity 301
28. PART VI. Iconicity and multimedia / intertextuality
29. Iconicity in multimedia performance 323
30. Author index 347
31. Subject index 353