iconicity

It has been suggested that iconicity can be used in the teaching of languages.

Iconicity is often argued to play a large role in the production and perception of gesture.

The question whether iconicity is indeed a true part of language has always been debated in linguistics.

Bee dances are another example of iconicity in animal communication systems.

Despite this, a few captive chimpanzees have shown the beginning stages of iconicity.

In fact, iconicity is now widely acknowledged to be a significant factor at many levels of linguistic structure.

Gunning states that a photograph must also have "iconicity".

Iconicity (the belief that there is something intrinsic about the sound of names)

As a result, iconicity as a whole was largely neglected in research of sign languages.

Iconicity is expressed in the grammatical structure of sign languages called classifiers.

Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical extension of iconic forms.

However, their popularity is due to their iconicity.

Sometimes, though, the form of the poem resembles or enacts the poem's content, and in this case, a visual iconicity is present.

Toward a common usage of iconicity terminology.

Conceptual spaces and embodied actions: Cognitive iconicity and signed languages.

Similarly, meaning that is contained in a visual form cannot be divorced from the iconicity and implications of the form.

Many early sign language linguists rejected the notion that iconicity was an important aspect of the language.

Eating the Wind a satirical but illustrative example of sound symbolism and iconicity using airstream mechanisms.

This is due to the fact that the medium of signed language - space - naturally allows more iconicity than oral language.

She concluded that though originally present in many signs, iconicity is degraded over time through the application of grammatical processes.

Just as she becomes the single most degraded wife in the history of the world, Mrs. Clinton is being promoted from celebrity into iconicity.

Iconicity often occurs within poetry.

The iconicity and symbolism of a sign depends on the cultural convention and are on that ground in relation with each other.

The Iconicity Principle is a good first step, but does not really explain any fine-grained semantic distinctions that may be in play.

Onomatopoeia may be seen as a kind of iconicity, though even onomatopoeic sounds have a large degree of arbitrariness.