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Getting the picture: iconicity does not affect representation-referent confusion. [PDF]
PLoS 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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Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity
, 2013 This article is part of a larger research project that aims to identify a methodicalway of investigating iconicity in the immensely rich field of media, whichincludes art and other kinds of communication.
Elleström, Lars,
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Iconicity as Meaning Miming Meaning and Meaning Miming Form
, 2010 Iconicity consists of mimetic relations between form and meaning. This article is based on the notion of ‘spatial thinking’ and it is argued that there is no form without meaning, and that all meaning has some sort of form.
Elleström, Lars,
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstractIconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
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Научный 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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On System-Internal and Differential Iconicity in Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
Signata, 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]
PLoS 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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Iconicity and diachronic language change [PDF]
, 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to ...
Marcus Perlman +3 more
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From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 Practically all theories of iconicity are denunciations of its subject matter (for example, those of Goodman, Bierman and the early Eco). My own theory of iconicity was developed in order to save a particular kind of iconicity, pictoriality, from such ...
Göran Sonesson
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