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: Signergy 1
6. Part I. Theoretical approaches
7. Literary practices and imaginative possibilities 23
8. The bell jar, the maze and the mural 47
9. Iconicity as meaning miming meaning and meaning miming form 73
10. A view from the margins 101
11. Part II. Visual iconicity
12. Iconic and indexical elements in Italian Futurist poetry 129
13. Taking a line for a walk 157
14. Iconicity and naming in E. E. Cummings’s poetry 179
15. Bunyan and the physiognomy of the Wor(l)d 193
16. From icon to index and back 211
17. The poem as icon of the painting 225
18. Part III. Iconicity and historical change
19. Iconicity and etymology 243
20. Iconicity typological and theological 259
21. An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization 279
22. Part IV. Iconicity and positionality
23. Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization 301
24. Iconicity and subjectivisation in the English NP 319
25. Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures 347
26. Part V. Iconicity and translation
27. Translation, iconicity, and dialogism 367
28. Iconicity and developments in translation studies 387
29. Author index 413
30. Subject index 417