• DOI:10.1007/s10988-013-9129-1
Corpus ID: 18895420

Iconic variables

@article{Schlenker2013IconicV,
  title={Iconic variables},
  author={P. Schlenker and Jonathan Lamberton and M. Santoro},
  journal={Linguistics and Philosophy},
  year={2013},
  volume={36},
  pages={91-149}
}

P. Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton, M. Santoro

Published 2013

Linguistics and Philosophy

We argue that some sign language loci (i.e. positions in signing space that realize discourse referents) are both formal variables and simplified representations of what they denote; in other words, they are simultaneously logical symbols and pictorial representations. We develop a 'formal semantics with iconicity' that accounts for their dual life; the key idea ('formal iconicity') is that some geometric properties of signs must be preserved by the interpretation function. We analyze in these… CONTINUE READING

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