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The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as
The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
Language: en
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued tha
The Motivated Sign
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This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In
Self-Reference in the Media
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Authors: Winfried Nöth
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This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their