* Eating the Wind a satirical but illustrative example of sound symbolism and iconicity using airstream mechanisms.

* Eating the Wind: a satirical, but illustrative example of sound symbolism and iconicity of airstream mechanisms.

In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have long been overlooked or treated as mysterious words ( Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001: 2 ), though a recent surge of interest in sound symbolism, iconicity and linguistic diversity has brought them renewed attention ( Imai et al.

There are differences in degrees of iconicity across sign types.

In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign ( linguistic or otherwise ) and its meaning, as opposed to arbitrariness.

In sign languages iconicity was often argued to be largely confined to sign formation ( comparable to onomatopeia ).

More recently, as sign language researchers gain confidence ( and the fear of losing linguistic status subsides ), the possible role of iconicity is being evaluated again.

Iconic signs, however, " may or may not have it depending on how they're used … iconicity, therefore, is the most probable road that our ancestors took into language.

Some of her more accessible work focuses on gesture, but her other research interests include historical linguistics, semantics, metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, and the Celtic language family.

" Bee dances are another example of iconicity in animal communication systems.

The concepts of association, comparison, correspondence, mathematical and morphological homology, homomorphism, iconicity, isomorphism, metaphor, resemblance, and similarity are closely related to analogy.

Similarly, they accept resemblance although call it ‘ iconicity ’ ( after Charles Sanders Peirce, 1931 – 58 ) and are uncomfortable in qualifying its role.

The advantage of SignWriting is that its iconicity makes it easy to learn.

The question whether iconicity is indeed a true part of language has always been debated in linguistics.

Recently, for instance, Haspelmath has argued against iconicity, claiming that most iconic phenomena can be explained by frequency biases: since simpler meanings tend to be more frequent in the language use they tend to lose phonological material.

Onomatopoeia may be seen as a kind of iconicity, though even onomatopoeic sounds have a large degree of arbitrariness.

Despite this, a few captive chimpanzees have shown the beginning stages of iconicity.

Proposed ways in which iconicity is achieved is through Hands that Act, Embody, Model, and Draw.

Some proponents believe that iconicity does not play an actual role in perception and production of signs once they have undergone phonological reduction and become part of the conventionalized vocabulary.

Like in vocal languages, developmental trends in ASL shy away from iconicity in favor of arbitrariness.

A well-known form of poetic iconicity is the use of onomatopoeia, which may be called auditory iconicity.

Sometimes, though, the form of the poem resembles or enacts the poem's content, and in this case, a visual iconicity is present.

One poet well known for his visual poems, and therefore visual iconicity, is E. E. Cummings.

A subset of visual iconicity involves a spatial iconicity.

In the poems " The Fish " and " The Moose " by Elizabeth Bishop, temporal iconicity is at work.

It has been suggested that iconicity can be used in the teaching of languages.

In fact, iconicity is now widely acknowledged to be a significant factor at many levels of linguistic structure.

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or ( in the Saussurean tradition ) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes ( semiosis ), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.

:( If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.

The term " symbolism " is derived from the word " symbol " which derives from the Latin symbolum, a symbol of faith, and symbolus, a sign of recognition, in turn from classical Greek συμβόλων symbolon, an object cut in half constituting a sign of recognition when the carriers were able to reassemble the two halves.

In older churches, and modern Roman Catholic churches, there are a number of lavers around the building for the laity to use as ritual symbolism of cleansing themselves, usually by dipping the fingertips in the holy water, and then making the sign of the cross.

To modern eyes, Nayler's procession might not seem particularly outrageous compared to the acts of other early Quaker activists, who often disrupted church services and sometimes " went naked as a sign " ( as a symbol of spiritual innocence ); but at a time when Quakers were already being pressed to denounce the doctrine of the Inner Light because of its implication of equality with Christ, Nayler's ambiguous symbolism was seen as playing with fire.

" This is expressed by saying that a proposition A is logically equivalent to not not-A ), or by the formula A ≡ ~(~ A ) where the sign ≡ expresses logical equivalence and the sign ~ expresses " not " or " negation ".< ref > Or alternate symbolism such as A ↔ ¬(¬ A ) or Kleene's * 49 < sup > o </ sup >: A ∾ ¬¬ A ( Kleene 1952: 119 ; in the original Kleene uses an elongated tilde ∾ for logical equivalence, approximaed here with a " lazy S ".

* Arbitrariness: There is not necessarily a rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning, i. e. symbolism.

In semiotics ( the study of signs or symbolism ), salience refers to the relative importance or prominence of a part of a sign.

Much of the symbolism of this act links to astrological connotations associated with sign of Pisces or Esfand, or the 12th House related to the subconscious mind, hidden resources, hidden problems, social responsibility.

If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

The two points at which there is the greatest overlap or mutual impingement of the two versions of critical theory are in their interrelated foci on language, symbolism, and communication and in their focus on social construction.

The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.

Ephrem combines in his writing a threefold heritage: he draws on the models and methods of early Rabbinic Judaism, he engages skillfully with Greek science and philosophy, and he delights in the Mesopotamian / Persian tradition of mystery symbolism.

According to Ford ’ s The Modern Theologians, “ Mary Daly has done more than anyone to clarify the problems women have concerning the central core symbolism of Chrisianity, and its effects on their self-understanding and their relationship to God .”

The Goddess is often portrayed with strong lunar symbolism, drawing on various cultures and deities such as Diana, Hecate, and Isis, and is often depicted as the Maiden, Mother and Crone triad popularised by Robert Graves ( see Triple Goddess below ).

The symbolism in the book expands on these as a struggle between good and evil ( light and darkness ), not so much between people as in every major character's soul.

However, in some of the newer traditions of Wicca, and especially those influenced by feminist ideology, there is more emphasis on the Goddess, and consequently the symbolism of the Horned God is less developed than that of the Goddess.

The symbolism of prayer is so strong it assists the devotee to concentrate on the virtues of Arihantas and Thirthankaras.

All artists do work that comes out of the unconscious mind and later on you can analyze it and say the symbolism may mean something, but artists don ’ t think that way and I would bet my life that James Whale would never have had such concepts in mind.

He is now remembered as a national hero on a par with King Arthur and numerous small groups have adopted his symbolism to advocate independence or nationalism for Wales.

The three bodies thrown into pit close to the gallows, while the heads were placed, with Bradshaw's in the middle, at the end of Westminster Hall ( the symbolism was lost on no one as that was the building where the trial of Charles I had taken place ).

The symbolism is captured in Zechariah 9: 9 " The Coming of Zion's King-See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey ".

However, he was skeptical about Freudianism, especially after a struggle with an editor who insisted on reading Freudian sexual symbolism into his juvenile novels.

They used Surrealist symbolism and terminology in their large scale happenings organized in the major Polish cities during the Jaruzelski regime, and painted Surrealist graffiti on spots covering up anti-regime slogans.

In Scorsese on Scorsese the director mentions the religious symbolism in the story comparing Bickle to a saint who wants to clean up both life and his mind.

In his Arcana Coelestia, Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) expounds on the symbolism and underlying spiritual meaning of both Genesis and Exodus.

At the beginning of a public teaching, a lama will do prostrations to the throne on which he will teach due to its symbolism, or to an image of the Buddha behind that throne, then students will do prostrations to the lama after he is seated.

* The Prisoner Video Companion, 1990: a 48-minute American production with clips, including a few from Danger Man, and voice-over narration discussing origins, interpretations, meaning, symbolism, etc., in a format modelled on the 1988 Warner book, The Official Prisoner Companion by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali.

Medieval poetical literature is full of allusions that can be traced to the Physiologus tradition ; the text also exerted great influence on the symbolism of medieval ecclesiastical art: symbols like those of the phoenix rising from its ashes and the pelican feeding her young with her own blood are still well-known.