Form Miming Meaning: Iconicity in Language and Literature Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of contributors
	Introduction: Iconicity as a Creative Force in Language Use
	Why Iconicity?	3
	Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory	37
	Creating the World in Our Image: A New Theory of Love of Symmetry and Iconicist Desire	59
	On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of Creative Interaction Between Iconicity and Indexicality in Twentieth-Century Literature	83
	Iconicity in Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prose Writing	109
	What, if Anything, is Phonological Iconicity?	123
	Imagination by Ideophones	135
	Iconicity and Beyond in "Lullaby for Jumbo": Semiotic Functions of Poetic Rhythm	155
	Alphabetic Letters as Icons in Literary Texts	173
	'singing is silence': Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E. E. Cummings	199
	Iconicity and Divine Likeness: George Herbert's "Coloss. 3.3"	215
	Iconic Rendering of Motion and Process in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams	235
	Graphological Iconicity in Print Advertising: A Typology	251
	Iconicity in the Digital World: An Opportunity to Create a Personal Image?	285
	Diagrammatic Iconicity in Word-Formation	307
	Iconicity in Brand Names	325
	On the Role Played by Iconicity in Grammaticalisation Processes	345
	Iconicity, Typology and Cognition	375
	The Iconic Use of Syntax in British and American Fiction	393
	Linguistic Expression of Perceptual Relationships: Iconicity as a Principle of Text Organization (A Case Study)	409
	Author index	423
	Subject index	433