Semiotic foundations of iconicity in language and literature

Nöth, Winfried

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“…According to this trichotomy, the sign is called an icon , an index or a symbol respectively. An Icon, or what is also called “a motivated sign” (Nöth, 2001), exhibits some relevant properties of the object; its form is similar to, and shares qualities with its referent. According to Peirce, there are three categories of iconicity: imaginal, diagrammatic, and metaphoric iconicity, with an increasing degree of abstraction related to their representing object.…”

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Extracting salient sublexical units from written texts: “Emophon,” a corpus-based approach to phonological iconicity

Aryani¹,

Jacobs²,

Conrad³

2013

Front. Psychol.

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A growing body of literature in psychology, linguistics, and the neurosciences has paid increasing attention to the understanding of the relationships between phonological representations of words and their meaning: a phenomenon also known as phonological iconicity. In this article, we investigate how a text's intended emotional meaning, particularly in literature and poetry, may be reflected at the level of sublexical phonological salience and the use of foregrounded elements. To extract such elements from a given text, we developed a probabilistic model to predict the exceeding of a confidence interval for specific sublexical units concerning their frequency of occurrence within a given text contrasted with a reference linguistic corpus for the German language. Implementing this model in a computational application, we provide a text analysis tool which automatically delivers information about sublexical phonological salience allowing researchers, inter alia, to investigate effects of the sublexical emotional tone of texts based on current findings on phonological iconicity.

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Extracting salient sublexical units from written texts: “Emophon,” a corpus-based approach to phonological iconicity

Aryani¹,

Jacobs²,

Conrad³

2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…In the constructions presented here, the code is maximally isomorphic to the linguistic structure rather than to the world experience they represent. Nöth (1990Nöth ( , 2000, in his analysis of iconicity in language and literature, distinguishes between 'exophoric iconicity', which are verbal signs that relate to something beyond language, or form mimicking meaning, and 'endophoric iconicity', which are relations of reference within language, or form miming form. He states that endophoric syntagmatic iconicity "is iconicity within the linearity of text or discourse: repetition, parallelism, alliteration, rhyme and meter are various modes of syntagmatic iconicity" (Nöth 2000: 23).…”

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The pragmatic functionality of atonic double-object clitic clusters in fourteenth-century Florentine

Aski

Russi²

2010

Folia Linguistica Historica

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Throughout the thirteenth century in the dialect of Florence the order of clitic pronouns in double-object clusters in which the dat(ive) was first-or secondperson singular or plural was acc(usative)-dat. During the fourteenth century variation in the order arose so that both the acc-dat and the dat-acc order were possible. By the fifteenth century, however, the variation was resolved in favor of dat-acc, the pattern found today in Standard Italian, derived essentially from late Medieval Florentine. Expanding upon Aski (forthcoming), this article offers a pragmatic-driven account of the order of double-object proclitic clusters found in fourteenth-century Florentine texts of a variety of genres, which were collected from the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) on-line database. The results of our analysis confirm Aski's (forthcoming) observation that the primary factor governing the order alternation is topicality of the referent of the first clitic, but additional structural and semantic factors were found to be operative as well. Although this is an exhaustive textual examination of a medieval morphosyntactic phenomenon, the conclusions remain tentative, since pragmatic properties are always co-determined by contextual and situational factors that are difficult if not impossible to reconstruct.

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“…A typical example of linguistic icons are onomatopoeias, but also rhetorical figures such as metonymy or metaphor signify by means of a structural resemblance of an object. For an excellent study of linguistic iconicity, seeNöth (2001).…”

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