Iconicity in Cognition and Across Semiotic Systems

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive Semiotic approach. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal, visual and gestural communication, these contributions discuss it from the point of view ofhuman meaning-making, examined as a phenomenon that is experienced, embodied and often polysemiotic in nature--