The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language

Olga Fischer is Professor Emerita of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (OUP 2007), co-author of A Brief History of English Syntax (CUP 2017), founder and co-editor of the Iconicity in Language and Literature series (Benjamins 1999-present), and chief editor of Folia Linguistica (2016-2023). She has edited volumes on grammaticalization and syntactic change (Benjamins 2000, 2004), and has published widely in these areas in academic journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Diachronica, Transactions of the Philological Society, and Studies in Language.Kimi Akita is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Nagoya University. His research interests include ideophones, sound symbolism, and linguistic typology. He has published in major journals, including Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Journal of Linguistics. He is the co-editor of Iconicity: East Meets West (Benjamins 2015), The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition, and Translation (Routledge 2017), and Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives (Benjamins 2019).Pamela Perniss is Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences and Chair of the Sign Language Interpreting (DGS-German) program at the University of Cologne. Her research takes a multimodal approach to language and focuses in particular on the role of iconicity in the visual modality in shaping language structure and processing. She has co-edited volumes and special issues related to the study of iconicity, including in the series Iconicity in Language and Literature (Benjamins 2020) and in Language and Cognition (CUP 2020). She is General Editor of Sign Language & Linguistics and Associate Editor of Cognitive Science.

• 1: Olga Fischer, Pamela Perniss, and Kimi Akita: Introduction: Iconicity as a general principle underlying language and language behavior Part I. Foundational issues in iconicity 2: Luca Nobile: Iconicity in classical philosophy: A legacy of prehistoric orality 3: Winfried Nöth: Peirce on icons and iconicity 4: John E. Joseph: Saussure and iconicity: The ghost in the machine? 5: Hendrik De Smet: nalogy and iconicity 6: Sonia Cristofaro: Iconicity in language typology 7: Ludovic De Cuypere: The explanatory power of iconicity in language 8: Thomas Berg: Frequency, variation, and iconicity Part II. Iconicity in linguistic theorizing 9: Diego Gabriel Krivochen and L'udmila Lacková Bennett: Iconicity and generative grammar 10: Elzbieta Muskat-Tabakowska: Iconicity in cognitive and functional linguistics 11: Bodo Winter, Greg Woodin, and Marcus Perlman: Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences 12: Vincent M. Colapietro: Embodied mind Part III. (Morpho)phonology 13: Marcus Perlman: Iconic prosody and its connection to iconic gesture 14: David M. Sidhu: Experimental approaches to sound symbolism 15: Niklas Erben Johansson: Cross-linguistic vocal iconicity 16: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano: The segmentals and suprasegmentals of ideophones 17: Oksana Tkachman: Iconicity in formational properties of signs in sign languages Part IV. Iconicity in writing systems 18: Dimitrios Meletis: Phonographic writing systems 19: Xinxin Zhao: Logographic writing systems and Chinese characters 20: Sybille Krämer: Notational iconicity Part V. Morphosyntax 21: Wolfgang U. Dressler and Marianne Kilani-Schoch: Iconicity in word formation 22: Thomas Schwaiger: Reduplication in spoken and signed language 23: Lívia Körtvélyessy: Iconicity in diminutives and augmentatives 24: Carl Börstell: Iconic plurality across modalities 25: Isabeau De Smet and Freek Van de Velde: Iconicity in verbal formation 26: Klaas Willems: Principles of diagrammatic iconicity in language 27: Stela Manova: The iconicity of affix order 28: Anita Slonimska: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages Part VI. Lexis and semantics 29: Janis B. Nuckolls: The enactive iconicity of ideophone semantics 30: Anatoly Liberman: Etymology and folk etymology 31: Silva H. Ladewig: Degrees of iconicity in gestures: From richness to schematicity 32: Michal Szawerna and Neil Cohn: Iconicity in the visual lexicons of comics Part VII. Discourse 33: James H.-Y. Tai: Iconic sequencing in spoken and signed language 34: Yanna Popova: Iconic and non-iconic aspects of storytelling: Narrative fiction, temporality, and memory 35: Lindsay Ferrara: Iconicity in signed narratives Part VIII. Iconicity and language learning/ language development 36: Catherine Laing and Beyza Sümer: Iconic bootstrapping for language development: One size does not fit all 37: Gerardo Ortega, Yukari Hirata, and Spencer Kelly: Iconicity in L2 learning 38: Peter Bakker: Iconicity in pidgins and creoles 39: Lotte Meteyard: Effects of iconicity in populations with speech, language, and communication needs Part IX. Iconicity and language processing 40: Robin L. Thompson and Corrine Occhino: Iconicity in sign language processing: Lexical effects in comprehension and production 41: Bonnie McLean and Yasamin Motamedi: A robustness approach to operationalizations of iconicity 42: Arash Aryani: Iconicity in the mind: Unravelling the cognitive and neural pathways linking sound and meaning Part X. Iconicity and language evolution and emergence 43: Nicolas Fay and Bradley Walker: Sign iconicity and its contribution to gesture-first theories of language origin 44: Christine Cuskley and Kees Sommer: The evolution of linguistic iconicity and the cross-modal cognitive suite 45: Bencie Woll: Iconicity, multi-modality, and language evolution 46: Maria Flaksman: De-iconization and (re)-iconization: Diachronic aspects of lexical iconicity in spoken languages 47: William J. Herlofsky: De-iconization and re-iconization in signed languages: The case of Japanese sign language 48: Loïs Dona and Marieke Schouwstra: Iconicity in the evolution of language: Computational models and laboratory experiments 49: Brian D. Joseph: Language contact and iconicity Part XI. Applications of iconicity 50: Federico Gobbo: Iconicity in invented languages 51: Christina Ljungberg: Iconicity in literature 52: John Haiman: The aesthetic motivation of icons: 'We first love things when first we see them painted' 53: Imogen Cohen and Eric Metz: Translation of iconicity: Iconicity of translation