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.

Iconicity in language

Chapters in this section provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically).

Iconicity in literature

This section is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres.

Iconicity in visual media

The third section highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media.

Iconicity in semiotic analysis

The final section offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.