Iconicidade linguística desde F. de Saussure e C. S. Peirce

The paper examines trends and tendencies in modern linguistics since Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles S. Peirce in the study of iconicity in spoken and written language. Saussure’s dogma of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign impeded research into linguistic iconicity for decades. Only in the 1980s did iconicity become a vital research field of modern linguistics (again). The paper argues further that Saussure’s concept of the arbitrary sign is not congruent with Peirce’s symbol and shows that Peirce’s icon differs from the Saussurean concept of the verbal sign motivated by similarities between the signifier and the signified. The study shows how some scholars interpreted the renewed interest in iconicity in language as an “iconic turn” in modern linguistics, while others hastened to narrow the concept of iconicity down again

Arbitrariness · Iconicity · Semiotics · Sign language · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Language Studies