Referential iconicity in music and speech

Iconicity in Language and Music: Establishing Homologies Between Diverse Phenomena

This paper explores the extent to which the iconic principles are evidenced in literary texts. We will present case studies of how iconicity works and come to some conclusions about the efficacy of musical forms when they are tailored down to the needs of another semiotic system. Iconicity is regarded in the paper in a structural way as an isomorphic analogue to the referent. We try to treat mu...

Iconicity in the speech of children and adults.

Iconicity - the correspondence between form and meaning - may help young children learn to use new words. Early-learned words are higher in iconicity than later learned words. However, it remains unclear what role iconicity may play in actual language use. Here, we ask whether iconicity relates not just to the age at which words are acquired, but also to how frequently children and adults use t...

the analysis of the role of the speech acts theory in translating and dubbing hollywood films

از محوری ترین اثراتی که یک فیلم سینمایی ایجاد می کند دیالوگ هایی است که هنرپیش گان فیلم میگویند. به زعم یک فیلم ساز, یک شیوه متأثر نمودن مخاطب از اثر منظوره نیروی گفتارهای گوینده, مثل نیروی عاطفی, ترس آور, غم انگیز, هیجان انگیز و غیره, است. این مطالعه به بررسی این مسأله مبادرت کرده است که آیا نیروی فراگفتاری هنرپیش گان به مثابه ی اعمال گفتاری در پنج فیلم هالیوودی در نسخه های دوبله شده باز تولید...

Categories and boundaries in speech and music*

Perceptual categories and boundaries arise when Ss respond to continuous variation on a physical dimension in a discontinuous fashion. It is more difficult to discriminate between members of the same category than to discriminate between members of different categories, even though the amount of physical difference between both pairs is the same. Speech stimuli have been the sole class of audit...

Requestive Speech Leads to Referential Clarity in Turkish Preschool Children