Includes articles that explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. This book brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity.

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Michelucci, Pascal); 3. Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words (by Kimi, Akita); 4. Iconic thinking and the contact-induced transfer of linguistic material: The case of Japanese, signed Japanese, and Japan Sign Language (by Herlofsky, William J.); 5. Ezra Pound among the Mawu: Ideophones and iconicity in Siwu (by Dingemanse, Mark); 6. Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language (by Fischer, Olga); 7. Imagic iconicity in the Chinese language (by Hu, Zhuanglin); 8. Words in the mirror: Analysing the sensorimotor interface between phonetics and semantics in Italian (by Nobile, Luca); 9. Un melange genevois: Tacit notions of iconicity in Ferdinand De Saussure's Writings in General Linguistics (by Chien, Jui-Pi); 10. How to put art and brain together (by Changizi, Mark); 11. Image, diagram, and metaphor: Unmined resource and unresolved questions (by Colapietro, Vincent); 12. The farmers sowed seeds and hopes: Element order in metaphorical phrases (by Shen, Yeshayahu); 13. Non-iconic chronology in English narrative texts (by Yevseyev, Vyacheslav); 14. A burning world of war: How iconicity works in constructing the fictional world view in A Farewell to Arms (by Xinxin, Zhao); 15. Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: Divergence and perceptual forces in poetry (by Tsur, Reuven); 16. Mental space mapping in classical Chinese poetry: A cognitive approach (by Chang, Han-liang); 17. Iconicity in conceptual blending: Material anchors in William Morris's News from Nowhere (by Glyn, Wilson David); 18. Thematized iconicity and iconic devices in the modern novel: Some modes of interaction (by White, John J.); 19. Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy (by Rippl, Gabriele); 20. Words, like shells, are signs as well as things (by Plooy, Heilna du); 21. Unveiling creative subplots through the non-traditional application of diagrammatic iconicity: An analysis of Kingsley Amis's The Green Man (by James, Andrew); 22. The iconic indexicality of photography (by Sadowski, Piotr); 23. Unbinding the text: Intermedial iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (by Ljungberg, Christina); 24. Argumentative, iconic, and indexical structures in Schubert's Die schone Mullerin (by Maeder, Costantino); 25. John Irving's A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor as '(mult-)i-conic' works of art (by Schwanecke, Christine)