A Grammar of IconismFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998 - 399 من الصفحات Literary criticism often includes ad hoc comments about onomatopoeia, synaesthesia, or other forms of iconism. In A Grammar of Iconism, Earl Anderson discusses these phenomena systematically. According to Anderson, modern post-Saussurian linguistics has as its central tenet the arbitrariness of linguistic signs. Thus, linguistic elements that bear some relationship to their referent have been seen as marginal to the system of language, or at best similar in their arbitrariness to other linguistic signs. As an example of the latter, while most languages have an onomatopoeic element, different languages imitate sounds differently. Anderson argues against the standard view, provides a detailed critique of the negative arguments against iconism, and offers a positive typology that demonstrates the extensiveness and complexity of iconism in language. |
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... thought to represent the beginning of human language . Samuel Johnson disapproved of the artifice , not because it was artificial , but because he thought it was unsuccessful . He acknowledged , to be sure , that in addition to sound ...
... thought to represent the beginning of human language . Samuel Johnson disapproved of the artifice , not because it was artificial , but because he thought it was unsuccessful . He acknowledged , to be sure , that in addition to sound ...
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... thought of as belong- ing to one of two groups : reductionist and natural derivation theories . Charles de Brosses ( 1765 ) was the first to propose a reductionist , or one might say an " etymological decomposition " theory . He thought ...
... thought of as belong- ing to one of two groups : reductionist and natural derivation theories . Charles de Brosses ( 1765 ) was the first to propose a reductionist , or one might say an " etymological decomposition " theory . He thought ...
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... thought that ges- tures , interjections , and onomatopoeia were important in the early evolution of language , and so , too , did other German writers : Bleek 1868 ; Geiger 1869 ; Schumann 1872 ; Curti 1890 ; Jung 1952 : 17 sqq ...
... thought that ges- tures , interjections , and onomatopoeia were important in the early evolution of language , and so , too , did other German writers : Bleek 1868 ; Geiger 1869 ; Schumann 1872 ; Curti 1890 ; Jung 1952 : 17 sqq ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Syntactic Iconism | 265 |
Inspiration Intentionality and Stylistic Differentiation | 314 |
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