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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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Iconicity (of Reading). Lolita
Semiotika (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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Sign learning of hearing children in inclusive day care centers—does iconicity matter?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 An increasing number of experimental studies suggest that signs and gestures can scaffold vocabulary learning for children with and without special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
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Implications of the “Language as Situated” View for Written Iconicity
Journal 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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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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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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Study on English Translation of Chinese Quantifiers from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity: A Pilot Study [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesChinese quantifiers are heavily loaded with Chinese culture, making it challenging to translate them into idiomatic English. The majority of earlier studies only examined linguistically the English translations of Chinese quantifiers.
Liu Ying, Lu Weizhong
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