论商务英语的线性语义顺序象似性

On the Iconicity of Semantic Linear Order in Business English

象似性研究是当代国内外认知语言学界的热点课题。顺序象似性是指句法成分的排列顺序与其所对应表达的现实或事件发生的顺序相呼应。研究以新编剑桥商务英语的三本教材为研究对象,总结并分析线性顺序语义原则现象如正叙、因果句、条件句、已知信息+新知信息、圆周句的象似功能与文体特征,有助于语言教学工作者及学习者深层理解语言背后的理据,从而达到更好的学习效果。

Iconicity is a hot topic in cognitive linguistic. The principle of order iconicity means the order of the syntax elements in a coherent discourse tend to correspond to the temporal order or diachronic order of the occurrence of the depicted events. Taking three textbooks of Cambridge Business English as research object,the study summarizes and analyzes the iconic function and stylistic features of semantic principle of linear order contained in diachrenic narrative,causal sentence,conditional sentence,the syntax transition of old information to new information and periodical sentence. The reference function of the study is helpful for language teachers and learners to understand better the deeper evidence and meaning beyond language form.