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Iconicity in instructional texts

Hermes, 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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Zur Ikonizität deutscher Zwillingsformeln

Linguistik Online, 2017
In this paper we present a corpus analysis of the influence of sequential iconicity on the linear order of German irreversible binomials. The analysis provides evidence for the thesis that semantic and pragmatic factors determining the linear order of ...
Agnieszka Gaweł
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The Image of the World Revealed In Words: Ludwig Wittgenstein and The Iсonic Semiotics

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2018
The article discusses an alternative version of semiotics in which the process of semiosis is based not on metonymic symbolization (substitution), when one entity stands for another, but on the metaphorical (iconic) representation.
Zolyan S. T.
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Naturalness and iconicity in language

, 2008
Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language.
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Willems, Klaas
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The iconicity toolbox: Empirical approaches to measuring iconicity [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. Growing evidence from across the cognitive sciences indicates that iconicity plays an important role in a number of fundamental language processes, spanning learning, comprehension, and online use. One benefit
Motamedi, Yasamin, Sulik, Justin, Little, Hannah, Nielsen, Alan   +3 more
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Iconicity in morphosyntax echoes in gesture and intonation: a multimodal CxG analysis of ‘over and over…(again)’ and ‘repeatedly’

Cognitive Linguistics
This study investigates whether morphosyntactic iconicity echoes across gesture and intonation within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG). Using corpus data from the NewsScape archive, three verbal patterns – repeatedly, over and over (OAO), and ...
Kuryu Daiya, Lelandais Manon
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Iconicity as the motivation for the signification and locality of deictic grammatical tones in Tal

Glossa
We present novel evidence for iconicity in core morphophonological grammar by documenting, describing, and analysing two patterns of tonal alternation in Tal (West Chadic, Nigeria).
Michael Bulkaam, Samuel Kayode Akinbo
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Ikonisitas Tata Panggung: Sebuah Kajian Semiotika Seni Rupa Teater

Resital: Jurnal Seni Pertunjukan, 2008
The Semiotic of Stage. Semiotics is a study dealing with signs and sign systems. Signs are created for theneeds of communication and information. According to Piercean’s, semiotics in theatre is a transformation of storysigns which symbolically become ...
UNTUNG TRI BUDI ANTONO
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From the more iconic to the less iconic linguistic form: morphological syntagms in Pāṇini

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
Starting from Kastovsky’s definition of “morphological syntagm”, I try to understand whether any similarity exists between complex word forms (such as compounds and secondary derivatives) and the matching source-phrases which should be taken into account
Tiziana Pontillo
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Somatosensory iconicity: Insights from sighted signers and blind gesturers

Open Linguistics
Iconicity studies in the field of sign language linguistics, and in other disciplines, have predominantly been visuocentric, emphasising vision over other senses.
Keränen Jarkko
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