Introduction: signergy / Ronél Johl, Jac Conradie and Marthinus Beukes -- Part I. Theoretical approaches. Literary practices and imaginative possibilities: toward a pragmatic understanding of iconicity / Vincent Colapietro -- The bell jar, the maze and the mural: diagrammatic figurations as textual performance / Christina Ljungberg -- Iconicity as meaning miming meaning and meaning miming form / Lars Elleström -- A view from the margins: theoretical contributions to an understanding of iconicity from the Afrikaans-speaking research community / Ronél Johl -- Part II. Visual iconicity. Iconic and indexical elements in Italian Futurist poetry: F.T. Marinetti's "words-in-freedom" / John J. White -- Taking a line for a walk: poetic contour drawings and contoured poems / Heilna du Plooy -- Iconicity and naming in E.E. Cummings's poetry / Etienne Terblanche -- Bunyan and the physiognomy of the Wor(l)d / Matthias Bauer -- From icon to index and back: a 16th century description of a "sea-bishop" / C. Jac Conradie -- The poem as icon of the painting: poetic iconicity in Johannes Vermeer and Tom Gouws / Marthinus Beukes -- Part III. Iconicity and historical change. Iconicity and etymology / Anatoly Liberman -- Iconicity typological and theological: J.G. Hamann and James Joyce / Strother B. Purdy -- An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization / Olga Fischer -- Part IV. Iconicity and positionality. Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization: what iconic signing spaces can tell us about mental spaces / William J. Herlofsky -- Iconicity and subjectivisation in the English NP: the case of little / Victorina González-Díaz -- Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures: towards a poetics of verse / Wolfgang G. Müller -- Part V. Iconicity and translation. Translation, iconicity, and dialogism / Susan Petrilli -- Iconicity and developments in translation studies / Jacobus A. Naudé.