The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration
Sonesson, Göran LU
(2022)
In Iconicity in Language and Literature
18.
p.11-26
- Abstract
The distinction between primary and secondary iconic signs, which I first made with regard to pictures, has been applied by other scholars to language, gesture, and music. Taking stock of this process, it has become necessary to clarify the distinction, insisting on the fact that secondary iconicity is not conventionality, but a kind of iconicity which is in itself not sufficient to define a meaning, but needs to be supplemented by other means, such as a label or a system of oppositions. We have shown this to be the case earlier, when considering what Arnheim termed 'droodles', but we will see that it also applies to language and music.
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- author
- Sonesson, Göran
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
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- subject
- host publication
- Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
- series title
- Iconicity in Language and Literature
- editor
- Lenninger, Sara ; Fischer, Olga ; Ljungberg, Christina and Tabakowska, Elzbieta
- volume
- 18
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85141051391
- ISSN
- 1873-5037
- ISBN
- 9789027257574
- DOI
- 10.1075/ill.18.01son
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- English
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