Iconicity

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Iconicity is an ambiguous linguistic technical term that refers to the concept of icon in the sense of Charles Sanders Peirce .

He describes

  • in the wake of Charles W. Morris, the degree of similarity (Morris: "question of the degree of relationship") of the iconic sign with its reference object;
  • the relationship between the expression and content of iconic characters. Iconicity is often translated as the relationship between linguistic expressions.

Typical examples of iconic idioms are

  • Get under the knife
  • To give green light
  • Breathe sifted air

Although they are metaphors , these idioms contain pictorial descriptions of the facts actually meant. The content is rendered iconically. However, the degree of imagery depends on the imagination of the recipient of the message, so that the iconicity is relative. Iconic signs such as pictures or paintings trigger similar perceptual reactions in the viewer as their original. The more blurred or more abstract the depicted object, the more the degree of iconicity decreases.

Depending on the degree of resolution imaging methods in which the reproduction of reality differs from that of the eye, such as have ultrasound , x-rays , infrared images , CT scans or a different iconicity micrographs. The same applies to the degree of abstraction of pictograms .

See also : Ikon ; Iconography , arbitrariness

literature

  • Franz Dotter: Non-arbitrariness and Iconicity in Syntax. Buske, Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-87118-964-2 .
  • Umberto Eco : Sign. Introduction to a term and its history. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1977. ISBN 3-518-10895-6 .
  • Willi Mayerthaler: Iconism in morphology , in: Posner, Roland u. a. (Ed.), Iconism in Natural Languages (Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2; 1/2). Wiesbaden: Academic Publishing Company Athenaion 1980.
  • Willi Mayerthaler: Morphological naturalness. Wiesbaden: Academic Publishing Company Athenaion 1981.
  • Roland Posner : Iconism in natural languages , in: Posner, Roland u. a. (Ed.), Iconism in Natural Languages (Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2; 1/2). Wiesbaden: Academic Publishing Company Athenaion 1980.

Web links

Wiktionary: Iconicity  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

swell

  1. ↑ quoted from Rehbock, Helmut: Ikon. In: Glück, Helmut (ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 4th edition. Metzler: Stuttgart, Weimar 2010
  2. ^ After Bußmann (ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd edition (2002): Iconicity .
  3. ↑ a b c d Ken Farø: Iconography, Iconicity and Iconicism: Three Terms and Their Meaning for Phraseology Research . In: Linguistics online . tape 27 , no. 2 , April 1, 2006, doi : 10.13092 / lo.27.743 ( bop.unibe.ch [accessed April 13, 2020]).