none 10.1075/ill.18.13kon John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 141450751 4151759 1420004 202412091254000023 10.1075 2024-12-09T06:56:35Z 2022-10-13T04:42:25Z 0 1873-5037 10.1075/ill https://benjamins.com/catalog/ill Sara Lenninger https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3257-4872 Olga Fischer Christina Ljungberg Elżbieta Tabakowska https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-792X This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive Semiotics. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal, visual and gestural communication, these contributions discuss it from the point of view of human meaning-making, examined as a phenomenon that is experienced, embodied and often polysemiotic in nature. 18 11 10 2022 10 13 2022 9789027211439 9789027257574 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/ill.18 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027257574 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/ill.18/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027257574.pdf Reiner Konrad University of Hamburg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7046-2548 Gabriele Langer University of Hamburg https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-9917 Anke Müller University of Hamburg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9671-3739 Sabrina Wähl University of Hamburg https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9867-0149 Iconic modification in German Sign Language (DGS) Abstract Sign Languages provide ways to create iconically motivated signs, that is, signs whose meaning is directly or indirectly connected to an underlying mental image expressed by the depictive elements of the sign’s form. While signs can be created and used to depict and therefore show what is meant, not all iconically motivated signs are used in this way. Signs of the established lexicon have meanings that are fixed by convention, although their form may be iconically motivated. In signing discourse established signs are used to denote objects, persons, situations or actions (function of ‘telling’). Once the context has thus been clarified iconic signs can be used in the function of ‘showing’. For this purpose, signers often create new, context-fitting iconic signs (‘productive signs’). However, iconically motivated established signs can also be used for showing by re-activating their underlying image and modifying their form. When analyzing data it sometimes is difficult to decide whether the sign should be classified as a modified established sign (‘iconic modification’) or as a productive sign. 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