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The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary a

Linguistics --- Semiotics --- Iconicity (Linguistics) --- Iconism (Linguistics) --- Icons (Linguistics) --- Iconicity (Linguistics) - Congresses --- Iconicité --- Congrès

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"The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs"--

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Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics, linguistic iconicity in semiotics, iconic structures in Sign Languages, natural and unnatural sound patterns, the iconic nature of parts of speech, the relation between (un)markedness and naturalness, and lexical and syntactic iconicity. The research conducted is based on sound (meta)theoretical analyses and/or original empirical research. The data and innovative views presented are bound to spark discussion in an age-old debate that has lost nothing of its significance.

Philosophy of language --- Iconicity (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Naturalness (Linguistics) --- Philosophy. --- Iconicity (Linguistics). --- Naturalness (Linguistics). --- Natural class (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Iconism (Linguistics) --- Icons (Linguistics) --- Semiotics --- Philosophy

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Iconicity (Linguistics) --- Philology --- Sign language --- Semiotics --- Linguistics --- Iconism (Linguistics) --- Icons (Linguistics) --- Iconicity (Linguistics) - Congresses --- Philology - Congresses --- Sign language - Congresses --- Semiotics - Congresses

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This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter. Based on an exhaustive analysis of data collected from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts we offer a novel analysis of the rise of the variable order, the transition from one order to the other, and the demise of the alternation that relies primarily on iconicity and analogy. The book employs exophoric pragmatic iconicity, a language-external iconic relationship based on similarity between linguistic structure and the speaker/writer's conceptualization of reality, and endophoric iconicity, a language-internal iconic relationship where the iconic ground is construed between linguistic signs and structures. Analogy is viewed as a productive process that generalizes patterns or extends grammatical rules to formally similar structures, and obtains the form of the analogical relationship between the masculine singular definite article and the third person singular accusative clitic, which shared the same phototactically constrained distribution patterns. The data indicate that exophoric pragmatic iconicity exploits and maintains the alternation, whereas endophoric iconicity and analogy conspire to end it.

Italian language --- Iconicity (Linguistics) --- Clitics. --- Pronoun. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Iconism (Linguistics) --- Icons (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Semiotics --- Romance languages --- Clitics --- Pronoun --- Grammar, Historical --- E-books --- Dialectology --- Historical linguistics --- Tuscany --- Analogy. --- Clitic Pronouns. --- Iconicity. --- Pragmatic Functionality.