Iconicity in Language

1. Foreword: Under the Sign of Cratylus (by Simone, Raffaele); 2. I. History of Linguistics; 3. Criticisms of the Arbitrariness of Language in Leibniz and Vico and the 'Natural' Philosophy of Language (by Gensini, Stefano); 4. II. Semiotic Theory; 5. Interactions between Iconicity and Other Semiotic Parameters in Language (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 6. Iconicity and/or Arbitrariness (by Engler, Rudolf); 7. Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code: Cognitive and Biological Considerations (by Givon, T.); 8. The Icon as an Abductive Process towards Identity (by Ajello, Roberto); 9. III. Language Description and Linguistic Theory; 10. The Iconic Index: From Sound Change to Rhyming Slang (by Anttila, Raimo); 11. Iconicity in Grammaticalization Processes (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 12. Iconicity between Indicativity and Predicativity (by Seiler, Hansjakob); 13. Iconic Aspects of Syntax: A Pragmatic Approach (by Simone, Raffaele); 14. Figure and Ground in Second Language Narratives: Traces of Iconicity (by Orletti, Franca); 15. Morphological Markedness in L2 Acquisition (by Berretta, Monica); 16. IV. Sign Systems Other than Verbal Language; 17. Terms for Spatio-Temporal Relations in Italian Sign Language (by Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena); 18. Creative Iconic Gestures: some Evidence from Aphasics (by Magno Caldognetto, Emanuela); 19. Iconicity in Children's First Written Texts (by Pontecorvo, Clotilde); 20. Index