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Iconicity (of Reading). Lolita

open access: yesSemiotika (Vilniaus universitetas), 2021
The paper focuses on the issue of iconicity of (printed) literary narrative and proposes the idea of iconic reading (or iconicity of reading). It discusses Peircean notion of iconic sign, examines its use within the field of iconicity studies in language
Irina Melnikova
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Getting the picture: iconicity does not affect representation-referent confusion. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Three experiments examined 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 428) understanding of the relationship between pictorial iconicity (photograph, colored drawing, schematic drawing) and the real world referent.
Marina C Wimmer   +3 more
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Iconicity in instructional texts

open access: yesHermes, 2008
Diagrammatic iconicity is usually investigated at the surface syntactic level of texts. In this paper, I try to show that a meaningful concept of iconicity cannot be found on this level in non-trivial instructional texts.
Wolfgang Koch
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The Anatomy of Iconicity: Cumulative Structural Analogies Underlie Objective and Subjective Measures of Iconicity. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Mind (Camb)
The vocabularies of natural languages harbour many instances of iconicity, where words show a perceived resemblance between aspects of form and meaning.
Punselie S, McLean B, Dingemanse M.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Characteristics of Iconic High-rise Buildings [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2022
Iconography is a degree given to a building and an objective of its architectural design. The iconic high-rise buildings are important in various fields.
Tarek Gaber   +2 more
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Implications of the “Language as Situated” View for Written Iconicity

open access: yesJournal of Cognition, 2021
In their review, Murgiano, Motamedi, and Vigliocco (2020) lay out a new perspective in which they argue that language should be understood as a situated phenomenon.
David M. Sidhu, Penny M. Pexman
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Complex Sentence as Sign of Syntactic Complexity, Realized on Basis of Principle of Iconicity (Experience of Researching German Scientific Discourse)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2021
The question is considered of how, within a separate fragment of intellectual and communicative activity (using the example of modern German-language scientific and technical discourse), the mechanism for implementing the category of syntactic complexity
T. V. Burdaeva, M. M. Khalikov
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Iconicity and diachronic language change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Iconicity, the resemblance between the form of a word and its meaning, has effects on behaviour in both communicative symbol development and language learning experiments.
Padraic Monaghan   +3 more
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On System-Internal and Differential Iconicity in Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing

open access: yesSignata, 2018
While referential modes of iconicity in signs of writing are well recognized, this paper emphasizes the complementary importance of system-internal modes of iconicity and sign motivation in complex writing systems.
Andréas Stauder
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A test of the symbol interdependency hypothesis with both concrete and abstract stimuli. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
In Experiment 1, the symbol interdependency hypothesis was tested with both concrete and abstract stimuli. Symbolic (i.e., semantic neighbourhood distance) and embodied (i.e., iconicity) factors were manipulated in two tasks-one that tapped symbolic ...
Simritpal Kaur Malhi, Lori Buchanan
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