By C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg

The name of this quantity strives to trap the dynamic scope and diversity of the essays it comprises, using insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as a ways faraway from one another in time because the Medieval story of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of twentieth century Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti, and as thematically various because the Pilgrim’s development and the poetry of e.e. cummings. functions reference either language and linguistics in addition to literature and literary idea – and similar fields resembling signal language and translation; the previous approached from the perspective of Japan signal Language, the latter on the subject of translations of the Koran and the Sesotho Bible, in addition to sleek German and English Bible translations. at the language aspect, the complex relationships among sound symbolism and etymology, and among analogy and grammaticalization are tested intensive. at the literary part, the enduring results of innovations equivalent to enjambment and metrical inversion are thought of, but additionally the ways that an figuring out of iconicity can open up meanings in advanced poetry, like that of the Afrikaans poet T.T. Cloete – during this specific example 3 poems encouraged by way of figures as various as Dante, Paul Klee and the pop icon Marilyn Monroe. In view of the truth that shape is ready to mime which means and that means itself should be mimed by way of that means, the theoretical query is requested – at the foundation of quite a lot of examples from literature, language, track and different sign-systems – no matter if that means may also mime shape. An advent to the paintings of H.C.T. M?ller, an early pupil within the box of iconicity, highlights a unfortunately little identified South African contribution to the improvement of iconicity thought.