LINGUIST List 21.2541

Tue Jun 08 2010

Books: Ling & Lit: Conradie, Johl, Beukes, Fischer, Ljungberg (Eds)

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Signergy: Conradie, Johl, Beukes, Fischer, Ljungberg (Eds)
Message 1: Signergy: Conradie, Johl, Beukes, Fischer, Ljungberg (Eds)
Date: 08-Jun-2010
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Signergy: Conradie, Johl, Beukes, Fischer, Ljungberg (Eds)
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Title: Signergy Series Title: Iconicity in Language and Literature 9 Published: 2010 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=ILL%209

Editor: C. Jac Conradie Editor: Ronél Johl Editor: Marthinus Beukes Editor: Olga Fischer Editor: Christina Ljungberg Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288417 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288417 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027243454 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027243454 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:

The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range ofthe essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity totexts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of abishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.Marinetti, and as thematically diverse as the Pilgrim's Progress and thepoetry of e.e. cummings. Applications reference both language andlinguistics as well as literature and literary theory - and related fieldssuch as sign language and translation; the former approached from the pointof view of Japan Sign Language, the latter with reference to translationsof the Koran and the Sesotho Bible, as well as modern German and EnglishBible translations. On the language side, the intricate relationshipsbetween sound symbolism and etymology, and between analogy andgrammaticalization are examined in depth. On the literary side, the iconiceffects of techniques such as enjambment and metrical inversion areconsidered, but also the ways in which an understanding of iconicity canopen up meanings in complex poetry, like that of the Afrikaans poet T.T.Cloete - in this particular instance three poems inspired by figures asdiverse as Dante, Paul Klee and the pop icon Marilyn Monroe. In view of thefact that form is able to mime meaning and meaning itself can be mimed bymeaning, the theoretical question is asked - on the basis of a wide rangeof examples from literature, language, music and other sign-systems -whether meaning can also mime form. An introduction to the work of H.C.T.Müller, an early scholar in the field of iconicity, highlights aregrettably little known South African contribution to the development oficonicity theory.

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
Written In: English (eng )

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