1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction: Iconicity in-side-out (by Herlofsky, William J.); 4. Theoretical issues; 5. Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception (by Bouissac, Paul); 6. On the role of iconic motivation in conceptual metaphor: Has metaphor theory come full circle? (by Hampe, Beate); 7. Relative motivation in Gustave Guillaume's theory (by Monneret, Philippe); 8. The beginnings of iconicity in the work of F. T. Marinetti (by Gahl, Peter); 9. Negative or inverted iconicity; 10. Mimesis lost - meaning gained (by Fill, Alwin F.); 11. Non-supplemented blanks in works of literature as forms of 'iconicity of absence' (by Wolf, Werner); 12. Photographs in narrative (by Ljungberg, Christina); 13. Coconut shells and creaking doors: A semiotic approach to the avant-garde radio play's sound-effects (by White, John J.); 14. Iconicity and sound; 15. The iconic-cognitive role of fricatives and plosives: A phono-semantic analysis of a classical Arabic prayer Al-falaq (by Fatani, Afnan H.); 16. Iconic uses of rhyme (by Nanny, Max); 17. Iconic strategies in Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi : "Altri canti d'amor" (by Georis, Christophe); 18. Iconicity and structure; 19. Frozen locutions - frozen dimensions: LEFT and RIGHT in English, German and Russian (by Schonefeld, Doris); 20. Some iconic correlations in language and their impact on the parole-langue dichotomy (by Kirtchuk-Halevi, Pablo I.); 21. The iconicity of infinitival complementation in Present-day English causatives (by Hollmann, Willem B.); 22. Linguistic representations of motion events: What is signifier and what is signified? (by Slobin, Dan I.); 23. Now you see it, now you don't: Imagic diagrams in the spatial mapping of signed (JSL) discourse (by Herlofsky, William J.); 24. Iconicity and narrative; 25. Pirandello's Si Gira : Iconicity and titles (by Sardo, Isabella); 26. Narrative structures and iconicity in Yasmina Reza's Une desolation (by Kuhn, Barbara); 27. Iconicity as a function of point of view (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 28. Iconic functions of phraseological units and metaphor (by Munat, Judith); 29. Author index; 30. Subject index