Semblance and Signification (Iconicity in Language and Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027243468 ISBN 13: 9789027243461

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9027243468
• ISBN 13: 9789027243461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Michelucci Pascal, Fischer Olga, Ljungberg Christina