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Semblance and Signification (Iconicity in Language and Literature)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2011
ISBN
9027243468, 9789027243461
LCC
P99.4.I26 S96 2011
Open Library ID
OL24896647M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3564911 bytes)
Pages
441\441
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-10 16:00:00

Description

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.

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