{"id":8179,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iconic_mapping\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:53","slug":"iconic_mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iconic_mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mapping between form and meaning in which the form in some way reflects or diagrams the conceptual structure it expresses (e.g., forms for meanings that &#8216;belong together&#8217; conceptually are positioned close together in a sentence). There is debate over the extent to which grammar is iconic:&nbsp;for those within the generativist framework, iconicity is marginal &nbsp;(sound symbolism as in &#8216;cuckoo&#8217; would be an example) and most form-meaning mappings are considered arbitrary, whereas for those who take a cognitive-functional approach, iconicity is pervasive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cognitive_functionalist_approach\">Cognitive functionalist approach<\/a>, <a href=\"form\">Form<\/a>, <a href=\"form-meaning_mapping\">Form-meaning mapping<\/a>, Generative grammar approach <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mapping between form and meaning in which the form in some way reflects or diagrams the conceptual structure it expresses (e.g., forms for meanings that &#8216;belong together&#8217; conceptually are positioned close together in a sentence). There is debate over the extent to which grammar is iconic:&nbsp;for those within the generativist framework, iconicity is marginal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iconic_mapping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iconic mapping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}