Abstract Recent years have seen a shift in the social scientific study of introduced species. Social scientists shown that popular interpretations vary beyond critical, invasive frameworks and include more celebratory or welcoming responses. Yet this research has taken form case studies. This limited comparative inquiry. In response, article develops typology sociocultural responses to species ...

The article dwells on the problem of iconic-conventional synergy a myth. myth is seen as concept with multifunctional status, blurred by identification attempts. Conceptual usage emphasizes its overlapping features that sport multifaceted practical typicality. As system embodies worldview, metaphysical form specifically structured narrative. Mythological consciousness includes formed links betw...

Iconic gestures convey substantive information not found in speech by expressing actions or attributes associated with objects. An earlier study with adult speakers (Beattie & Shovelton, 2002) showed that adult speakers are particularly good at gleaning information from iconic gestures that use a character viewpoint (CVP; e.g., “It goes like this”+flapping arms to convey BIRD FLYING)—gestures t...

While language conveys meaning largely symbolically, actual communication acts typically contain iconic elements as well: People gesture while they speak, or may even draw sketches while explaining something. Image retrieval prima facie seems like a task that could profit from combined symbolic and iconic reference, but it is typically set up to work either from language only, or via (iconic) s...

Three experiments were conducted to examine whether spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments. Subjects made speeded decisions with regard to whether members of a simultaneously presented word pair were semantically related. In Experiment 1, the words were presented one above the other. In the experimental pair, the words denoted parts of larger objects (e.g., ATTIC-BASEMENT). Th...

Iconicity is the non-arbitrary relation between properties of a phonological form and semantic content (e.g. "moo", "splash"). It is a common feature of both spoken and signed languages, and recent evidence shows that iconic forms confer an advantage during word learning. We explored whether iconic forms conferred a processing advantage for 13 individuals with aphasia following left-hemisphere ...

An iconic text entry system using the widely entrenched numeric keypad is presented. In an iconic system, text entry is designed to remind the user of existing notions of letter shape. For example, the letter “L” is entered by pressing buttons down the center of the keypad, and then to the right, calling to mind the shape of a capital L. The letter “O” is entered by pressing the digit 0, which ...