Naturalness and iconicity in language /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.
Description:	viii, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Iconicity in language and literature, 1873-5037 ; v. 7
Subject:	Naturalness (Linguistics) Iconicity (Linguistics) Language and languages -- Philosophy. Iconicity (Linguistics) Language and languages -- Philosophy. Naturalness (Linguistics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539011

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Other authors / contributors:	Willems, Klaas. De Cuypere, Ludovic.
ISBN:	9789027243430 (hb : alk. paper) 9027243433 (hb : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Contributors
2. Editors
3. Introduction: Naturalness and iconicity in language
4. Philosophical naturalism and linguistic epistemology
5. Prolegomena to a general theory of iconicity considerations on language, gesture, and pictures
6. Semiotic foundations of natural linguistics and diagrammatic iconicity
7. Naturalness and markedness
8. Natural and unnatural sound patterns: A pocket field guide
9. The\iconic function of full inversion in English
10. What is iconic about polysemy? A contribution to research on diagrammatic Transparency
11. Iconicity in sign languages
12. Arbitrary structure, cognitive grammar, and the partes orationis. A study in Polish paradigms
13. Name index
14. Subject index

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