LINGUIST List 26.1250

Thu Mar 05 2015

Books: Iconicity: Hiraga, Herlofsky, Shinohara, Akita (eds.)

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>


Date: 03-Mar-2015
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaarbenjamins.nl>
Subject: Iconicity: Hiraga, Herlofsky, Shinohara, Akita (eds.)
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Title: Iconicity
Subtitle: East meets West
Series Title: Iconicity in Language and Literature 14
Published: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ill.14

Editor: Masako K. Hiraga
Editor: William J. Herlofsky
Editor: Kazuko Shinohara
Editor: Kimi Akita
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268839 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268839 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268839 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027243508 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027243508 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027243508 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Abstract:

Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary texts; and iconic motivation in grammar, the chapters show the diversity and dynamics of iconicity research, ranging from iconicity as a driving force in language structure and change, to the various uses of images, diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text, in both narrative and poetic forms, as well as on all varieties of discourse, including the visual and the oral.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Ling & Literature
                            Pragmatics
                            Semantics

Written In: English (eng)

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