Woorde wat teken en be-teken - ikonisitein in die poësie
Abstract
In this article aspects of iconicity in language and in poetic texts
are discussed. The recent renewed interest in the anti-arbitrary
debate is used as a point of departure in order to examine the
iconic characteristics and the iconic functions of language and
poetic texts. Some less known theoretic views on aspects of
iconicity are mentioned and discussed. To underscore the theoretic
discussion a few poems of the poet T.T. Cloete are analysed
and interpreted focusing on iconicity. The most important
conclusions which are once again put forward in the article are
firstly that the functioning of poetic texts cannot be adequately
described, analysed and interpreted according to logical semantic
and linguistic systems alone and that the motivated or
iconic origin and archetypical meanings in language can and
may indeed play an important role in the production of meaning
and secondly that the referential aspect of a text should not be
neglected because text analyses of iconic poems once again
underscore the view that referentiality indeed remains the basis
of the production and communication of meaning.
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