iconicity
- noun
- /aɪˈkɒnɪsɪti/
- Specialized
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iconicidad
- The iconicity of a map lies in its ability to visually represent geographic features and locations.
- iconicity, activated by pictographic
- iconicity, metaphor
Examples
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The degree of iconicity varies from one character to another.
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But the iconicity of meaning concerns clusters of associated images more than isolated ones.
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Second, there is a diagrammatic iconicity between the place of characters and the effects they produce.
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Representation of meaning in the 'phonetic-ideographic characters' can also be explained by way of metaphor and iconicity.
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Iconicity reinforces the associative link.
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The blending process is analyzed in terms of iconicity, metaphor, and metonymy.
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Kanji also manifest diagrammatic iconicity, an analogical relationship between the structure of form and that of meaning.
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Further, the decomposed parts of Kanji are either pictograms, ideograms, or logographs; hence, iconicity plays an important role in the generation of their meaning.
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On the generic level, the graphic shape of Kanji as a whole bears associations based on imagic iconicity, an immediate link between form and its semantic associations.
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Compound ideograms represent their meaning by way of metaphor and iconicity. Sometimes, the pictographic root of radicals in compound ideograms is traceable, and one can easily reconstruct the etymology of the character.
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Synonyms
A style that uses clear, simple images to show ideas
How Iconic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Iconicity comes from Greek eikon 'image' and -icity 'quality', so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a picture or symbol that looks like what it means. That close 'likeness' is what makes signs and icons easy to understand.