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Dimensions of Iconicity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dimensions of iconicity -- Part I. Phonic dimensions -- The effect of iconicity flash blindness: An empirical study -- 1. Background -- 2. Data -- 3. Participants -- 4. Experiment -- 5. Hypotheses -- 5.1 Hypothesis 1 -- 5.2 Hypothesis 2 -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Results 1: Our hypotheses -- 6.2 Results 2: Unexpected patterns -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Iconic treadmill hypothesis: The reasons behind continuous onomatopoeic coinage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The iconic treadmill hypothesis -- 3. The iconic lexicon: Some explanatory notes on onomatopoeia, sound symbolism, phonesthemes, and ideophones -- 3.1 Onomatopoeic words -- 3.2 Sound symbolic words -- 3.3 Phonesthemic sound symbolism -- 3.4 Ideophones -- 4. The de-iconization process -- 4.1 De-iconization of form -- 4.2 De-iconization of meaning -- 4.3 Stages of de-iconization -- 5. Rates of de-iconization and new iconic coinage: The iconic treadmill -- 6. The driving force for the iconic treadmill -- Abbreviations -- References -- Tracking linguistic primitives: The phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairs -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Lexical universals -- 1.2 The oppositional relation -- 1.3 Phonosemantics -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Language sampling -- 2.2 Concept sampling -- 2.3 Sound classification and quantification -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Related phoneme distribution -- 3.2 Deviation from average -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Embodiment and phonosemantics -- 4.2 The oppositional relationship -- 4.3 Semantic origins -- 4.4 Explanatory suggestions for the semantic relations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Author query -- Continuity and change: On the iconicity of Ablaut Reduplication (AR) -- 1. Introduction 2. English AR as a prosodic template -- 3. An iconic analysis of AR expressions -- 4. Sound iconicity in AR -- 5. Movement iconicity in AR -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author Query -- Iconicity in English literary neologisms: (Based on R. Dahl's fairy tale The BFG) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Primary and secondary motivation of literary neologisms -- 3. Material -- 4. The phonetics of the BFG's speech -- 5. The grammar of the BFG's language -- 6. The lexis of the BFG's speech -- 6.1 General considerations -- 6.2 Depicting iteration -- 6.3 Depicting size -- 6.4 Depicting emotional attitude -- 6.5 Imitating sounds -- 7. Experimental study of iconicity in literary neologisms -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Cognitive dimensions -- Toward a theory of poetic iconicity: The ontology of semblance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Iconicity -- 3. Iconicity in poetry -- 4. Semblance in Brendan Galvin's Flute -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The ocean of surging emotion: The iconic representation of Symbolist transcendence in the poem "Feather Grass" by Konstantin Bal'mont -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The poem -- 3. From emotion to iconicity via blending of the senses -- 4. Phonetic, semantic and prosodic features of the poem -- 5. The structure of the poem -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Ekphrasis, cognition, and iconicity: An analysis of W. D. Snodgrass's "Van Gogh: 'The Starry Night'" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An image of the village -- 3. The sky -- 4. An "imaginative leap" -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Multimodal dimensions -- Deleuze and the Baroque diagram -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A graphic relation set between thinking and its physical shape -- 3. Unlocking areas of sensation -- 4. The intermediate character of the painterly diagram -- 5. The Melvillian diagram -- 6. Cartographic writing -- References -- Author query Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity: An interdisciplinary model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material, spatiotemporal, and sensorial modes -- 3. Cross-modal iconicity -- 4. Degrees of similarity and iconicity -- 5. From image to metaphor -- 6. Image schemas -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Iconicity, 'intersemiotic translation' and the sonnet in the visual poetry of Avelino De Araújo -- 1. Introduction: Visual poetry in contemporary art -- 2. Avelino de Araújo's visual sonnets and Livro de sonetos -- 2.1 The visual sonnet: Tradition and experimentation -- 2.2 Politically and socially committed sonnets -- 2.3 The arbitrariness of the sign and its multiplicity of meanings -- 2.4 Irony and playfulness in Araújo's visual sonnets -- 2.5 Further experiments with the sonnet -- 3. Conclusion: The future of the sonnet in the digital age -- References -- Appendix -- Reading across the gutter: Tintin's interrupted railway journeys -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Immersion or interruption? Poulet's phenomenology of reading -- 3. Reading comics: Gutters, gaps, interruptions -- 4. Tintin's trains: Diagrams of interrupted reading -- 5. (Detour) communication and transport: Michel Serres -- 6. Interference: Accidents, derailments, explosions -- 7. Modernity and global space: The blind spots of Tintin's world(s) -- Author query -- References -- The role of iconicity in package design: A case of the contemporary marketing of traditional Japanese confectionery -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical data: Traditional and modernised wagashi -- 2.1 The history of Japanese confectionery, wagashi -- 2.2 Data: Traditional and modern wagashi brands -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 Typography -- 3.2 Iconic resemblance between packages and wagashi -- 4. Conclusion: Iconicity in Japanese contemporary marketing -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author query Part IV. Performative dimensions -- Iconicity in Buddhist language and literature: The case of multidimensional iconicity in the perfect Buddhist mantra -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mantra -- 3. Visual iconicity (form miming form) -- 4. Auditory iconicity (form miming form) -- 5. Chronological iconicity (form miming meaning) -- 6. Articulatory iconicity (form miming meaning) -- 7. Final comments -- References -- Author query -- Iconization of sociolinguistic variables: The case of archetypal female characters in classic Hollywood cinema -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Iconicity and iconization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Selection of films and actresses -- 3.2 Selection and analysis of the data -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Inter-speaker variation: Pitch -- 4.2 Intra-speaker variation: Pitch -- 4.3 Variation in voice quality -- 4.4 The distinctive packaging of suprasegmental variables -- 5. Iconization and archetypes -- 5.1 Iconization and femmes fatales -- 5.2 Iconicity and dumb blondes -- 5.3 Iconicity and screwball heroines -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Author query -- Performative iconicity: Chiasmus and parallelism in William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece -- 1. Introduction: Performative iconicity -- 2. Parallelism, chiasmus, and multiple perspective -- 2.1 Tarquin's "trustless wings of false desire": The opening of the poem -- 2.2 "doth Tarquin lie revolving / The sundry dangers of his will's obtaining": Chiasmus and apo koinou -- 2.3 "O modest wantons, wanton modesty": Chiasmus and the reconciliation of contrast -- 3. The iconic performance of contrast in unity -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Author query -- Part V. New dimensions of iconicity -- Why notational iconicity is a form of operational iconicity -- 1. The phonographic dogma -- 2. Three blind spots of the speech-centred concept of writing 3. Overcoming the phonographic dogma -- 4. Notational iconicity -- 5. Spatiality -- 6. An example -- 7. Graphism -- 8. Interpretationality -- 9. Mechanizability -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Author query -- Iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Intended ambiguity and intended diagrammatic iconicity -- 3. Case study -- 3.1 The original: Homo homini lupus -- 3.2 Travesties -- 3.3 Mini-corpus: Three titles taken from Gazeta Wyborcza -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Author query -- The iconicity of literary analysis: The case of Logical Form -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The agenda of our paper is twofold: -- 1.2 This is where the second item on our agenda will come in: -- 2. What is iconic about a semantic representation of the sentence meaning? -- 3. Alternative (allegorical) interpretations -- 4. Semantic representation as a touchstone of any other "deep" analysis -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author query -- Author index -- Subject index
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