A range of perspectives on iconicity in language and literature

What is it about?

The book addresses form miming meaning, iconicity, from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, incl. literary studies, cognitive literary studies, linguistics, media theory. Various "dimensions" are considered: phonic, cognitive, multimodal, performative, and new dimensions, including notational iconicity, the interplay of iconicity, ambiguity, interpretability, and the iconicity of literary analysis from a formal semanticist point of view.

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Why is it important?

This volume of essays is relevant for academics from the fields of literary studies and linguistics who are interested in iconicity and/or in interdisciplinary approaches to language and literature.