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In linguistics and semiotics, iconicity is a resemblance or motivated fit between the form of a sign and its meaning, so that the shape of a word, gesture, or sign in some way pictures what it stands for. Charles Sanders Peirce, in his logic papers gathered in 1932, divided signs into the icon, which resembles its object, the index, which points to it, and the symbol, which is tied to it only by convention, and later work such as Dingemanse and colleagues' 2015 review showed that spoken and signed languages are shot through with such motivated mappings alongside arbitrary ones. Here the word names a relation between a form and a meaning, not a fading picture held in the eye for an instant nor a photograph that a whole public treats as emblematic.[1][2][3]
In media and visual culture, iconicity is the status an image reaches when a public treats it as emblematic: a single photograph or picture that is widely recognized, reproduced, and felt to condense a shared event or value. Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, in their 2003 study of the 'accidental napalm' photograph, analysed how certain news images become icons that carry public identity and collective memory. Here the word marks an image's cultural weight and recognisability, which need not rest on any special resemblance, and it differs from a form that pictures its meaning or a trace that fades from the eye in an instant.[4]
In sign language linguistics, iconicity refers to sign forms that resemble what they mean, a pervasive property of sign languages. This meaning comes from Taub (2001) in Language from the Body.[5]
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