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GAO Wencheng, YE Tianyi
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2020.11.001
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Iconicity principle provides a new framework for linguists to reexamine the relationship between the signifier and the signified. Apart from arbitrariness, iconicity principle also turns out to be true to some extent between form and meaning of linguistic symbols. This paper elaborates the iconicity principle in Chinese—mainly the sequencing iconicity, quantitative iconicity, symmetric iconicity, and asymmetric iconicity.
cognitive linguistics, iconicity principle, Chinese
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