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Meeting name:Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (7th : 2009 : Victoria University (Toronto, Canada))
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2011.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 427 pages).
Language:English
Series:Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10
Iconicity in language and literature ; v. 10.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121997
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Other authors / contributors:Michelucci, Pascal.
Fischer, Olga.
Ljungberg, Christina.
ISBN:9789027284822
9027284822
9027243468
9789027243461
9789027243461
1283314800
9781283314800
9786613314802
6613314803
Notes:Papers given at the Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, hosted by Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Canada)--and held on the Victoria College campus, 9-13 June, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary: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 a.
Other form:Print version: Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (7th : 2009 : Victoria University (Toronto, Canada)). Semblance and signification. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2011