6th to 8th April 2017
11th International Symposium on
Iconicity in Language and
Literature
Conference Programme
University of Brighton
UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
DAY 1 - THURSDAY 6th APRIL 2017
Time
8:30-9:15
9:15-9:30
9:30-10:30
Foyer/out
Registration/Coffee
10:30-11:00
Coffee
Room 102
Room 103
Panel A
Acquisition of iconic forms
Panel B
Iconicity in Literature and Translation
Panel C
Iconicity in Metaphor
11.00-11.40
NAOMI CASELLI & JENNIE PYERS: The
effect of iconicity type on the acquisition
of signs
OLGA BARTASHOVA & VERONICA
RAZUMOVSKAYA: The Nonce Lexis in
Literary Texts: Iconicity, Language Game
and Translation
MARGARET FREEMAN: Toward a Theory of
Poetic Iconicity: Metaphor
11.40-12.20
JORDAN ZLATEV: At what age do iconic
gestures emerge in ontogeny?
Conceptual and empirical issues
MARIANE UTUDJI: Salman Rushdie's
iconic syntax and its French translation
MARIBEL TERCEDOR-SÁNCHEZ & ALICIA
CASADO-VALENZUELA: Visual metaphors in
specialized knowledge representation:
medical images in the VariMed database
Panel D
Experimental approaches to iconicity in
language evolution 1
Panel E
Iconicity in Poetry
Panel F
Communication and semiotics
YASAMIN MOTAMEDI: Building language
with the body: iconicity in an evolving
system
JONAS NÖLLE, MARLENE STAIB,
RICCARDO FUSAROLI & KRISTIAN TYLEN:
Systematicity in a highly iconic world:
What determines which categories
emerge in a novel communication
system?
ASHLEY MICKLOS: Iconic strategies in
silent gesture: Perceiving the distinction
between nouns and verbs
JULIAN MOYLE: Iconicity in Christian
Bök's avant-garde poetry
AYAKO SHIBATA: Iconicity of Spirits: Taste
and See Japanese Whisky
ELZBIETA TABAKOWSKA: Levels of
iconicity in classical and modern haiku:
an attempt at operationalization
TATJANA SMIRNOVA: Iconic Function of
Rhythm in Promotional and Literary Texts
PAOLO DAINOTTI: Iconic Value of
Enjambement from Homer to Milton
KENAN HOCHULI: Sharing the space we
inhabit – movement as a semiotic base for
communication
12.30-14.00
Welcome
Keynote: LUCIA SANTAELLA: The
cognitive function of iconicity
Lunch
14.00-14.40
14.40-15.20
15.20-16.00
16:00-16:30
Lecture Theatre 1
Coffee
16.30-17.10
17.10-17.50
17.50-18.30
Panel G
Experimental approaches to iconicity in
language evolution 2
Panel H
Iconicity in Literature 1
Panel I
Semiotic theory
HANNAH LITTLE & MARCUS PERLMAN:
The transition from iconic signals to
arbitrary signs depends on modality
ALAN NIELSEN: Iconic categories are
easier to learn, but inhibit the learning of
conventional meanings
RICHARD JACOBS: Fallen Women / Fallen
Narratives
WINFRIED NÖTH: The iconicity of
hieroglyphic writing in two Peircean
perspectives
JULIA PONZIO: Double iconicity in the early
works of Peirce
BODO WINTER, MARCUS PERLMAN, LYNN
PERRY & GARY LUPYAN: Which words are
most iconic? Characterizing the
distribution of iconicity in English
LARISA ILINSKA, MARINA PLATONOVA &
TATJANA SMIRNOVA: Riding the Black
Knight: Investigating the Iconicity of
Color
MICHAL EPHRATT & WOLFGANG
MÜLLER: "Speechless Dialect": Silence in
Shakespeare’s Dramatic Works from an
Iconic Perspective
JIMMIE SVENSSON: Iconicity and
emotionality in verse
DAY 2 - FRIDAY 7th APRIL 2017
Time
9:00-10:00
Foyer/out
Lecture Theatre 1
Keynote: NEIL COHN: The Visual Language
of Comics: What comics can teach us
about the mind (and vice versa)
Room 102
Room 103
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Panel J
Construal and profiling of iconicity 1
Panel K
Rendering iconicity across modalities
Panel L
Iconicity in Morphosyntax 1
10.30-11.10
KAREN EMMOREY & JENNIE PYERS:
Cognitive biases in construing iconic
mappings
SVITLANA VOLKOVA: Iconicity of
syntactic constructions in contemporary
Native American prose
JI-YEON PARK: Morphosyntactic
integration of ideophones in language
use: The case of Korean
and Japanese
11.10-11.50
JENNY LU & SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW:
Combining categorical and gradient
information in sign and spoken
communication
LUCIANO PONZIO: Image and word as
forms of iconic depiction
NAHYUN KWON: Iconicity and
systematicity in Korean ideophones
11.50-12.30
BODO WINTER & JULIUS HASSEMER:
Profiling iconicity: Selective depiction in
height and shape gestures
WILLIAM HERLOFSKY: Iconicity in
translation: An Attempt at an IconicityPreserving Diagrammatic Translation of
a JSL narrative
KEIKO MASUDA: The relative order of
the members in partisally reduplicated
onomatopoeic words in Japanese
Panel M
Construal and profiling of iconicity 2
Panel N
Roots of iconic mappings
Panel O
Iconicity in morphosyntax 2
14.00-14.40
BENJAMIN ANIBLE: Comparing non-signer
iconicity ratings to on-line measures in
signers
ELENA SHAMINA: To the problem of
onomatopoeic world mapping
SOLVEIGA ARMOSKATE: Aspectual use
of ideophones in Lithuanian complex
predicates
14.40-15.20
KLAUDIA GROTE & ERIKA LINZ: Signiconicity rating in deaf and hearing at
different levels of abstraction
TETYANA KOZLOVA: Iconic inversion
VASANTA DUGGIRALA & LALITA
MURTY: Reduplication Types and
Iconicity levels: Observations from
Written Telugu
15.20-16.00
RACHEL CHANNON & HARRY VAN DER
HULST: Cross linguistic similarities in
concept selection for iconic signs
MARIA FLAKSMAN: De-iconization
Pathways: Evidence from Modern and
Ancient Germanic Languages
MICHAL LAZNICKA: Iconicity and
systematicity in Czech temporal
adverial clauses
12:30-14:00
Lunch
16:00-16:30
Coffee
Panel P
Iconicity in L2 teaching/acquisition
Panel Q
Iconicity in visual media
Panel R
Iconicity in morphosyntax 3
16.30-17.10
JET VAN DAM VAN ISSELT & ANNE
BANNINK: Analogy and iconicity in a
learners' school diary
ANASTASIA KOSTETSKAYA: Quiet Flows
the Soul across Media and Modalities:
blending as the link between iconicity
and emotion in verbal and visual
Symbolist texts
SIMON DEVYLDER: The iconicity of
distance in Paamese language and
culture
17.10-17.50
MARTA OSORIO: Iconicity in spoken
language: prosody and gesture.
Implications in second language teaching
PIOTR SADOWSKI: In the kingdom of
shadows: Arthur Robison's Schatten
(1923) and the iconic indexicality of
cinema
LAUREN FONTEYN: Operationalizing
iconicity in categorial gradients: a
synchronic and diachronic study of
English nominalizations
19:00-20:00
20:00-23:00
Drinks reception
Conference dinner
DAY 3 - SATURDAY 8th APRIL 2017
Time
9:00-10:00
Foyer/out
Lecture Theatre 1
Keynote: MARK DINGEMANSE: Facts and
fiction about iconicity: the story of
ideophones
Room 102
Room 103
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Panel S
Typology of iconicity in discourse
Panel T
Sound-symbolic mapping of the
phonemic space
Panel U
Iconicity in literature 2
10.30-11.10
BRIGITTE GARCIA, MARIE-ANNE
SALLANDRE & MARIE-THERESE
L'HUILLIER: Typology of iconicity in
French Sign Language discourse: mapping
and economical imbrication
NIKLAS JOHANSSON: The building
blocks of sound symbolism
CHRISTINA LJUNGBERG: Criss-crossing
James Joyce's Ulysses: chiasmus and
cognition
11.10-11.50
PIA SIMPER-ALLEN: "Cut and break"descriptions in Swedish Sign Language:
Children's and adults' depicting verb
constructions
MATTHEW JONES & GABRIELLA
VIGLIOCCO: What sounds are truly
round? A sweep of the English
phonemic space
XINXIN ZHAO: Heart without 'the':
Iconicity in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
11.50-12.30
EMILY SHAW: Winning charades or
achieving common ground? A microanalytic take on iconicity in spoken and
signed interactions
BODO WINTER & MARCUS PERLMAN: 'r'
is for rough: Relative and absolute
iconicity for touch concepts in English
OLGA FISCHER: Observations on the use
and function of (morpho)syntactic blanks
in Eimear McBride’s novel, A Girl is a Halfformed Thing (2013)
Panel V
Cross-domain mapping of iconicity
Panel W
Pressures for iconic mappings
DEVON SCHILLER: Proof of Face:
Operational Iconicity in the Facial Action
Coding System (FACS) Manual and its
Diagrammatical Manipulation for
Automated Facial
Expression Analysis (AFEA)
MATTHEW JONES, GABRIELLA
VIGLIOCCO, DAVID VINSON, NOURANE
CLOSTRE, ALEX LAU-ZHU & JULIO
SANTIAGO: Iconicity Emerges in a
Model of Language Change
12:30-14:00
14.00-14.40
Lunch
14.40-15.20
PETER MARSH: The appreciation of the
iconic super structure in translating text
to form
HANNAH LITTLE: Causes for the inverse
relationship between iconicity and
phonological structure
15.20-16.00
RANDALL HOGUE: Types of iconic
mappings in ASL mouth movements
KIMI AKITA: Limits of auditory iconicity:
The semantics of motion ideophones in
Japanese