The English construction “X and Y ”refers to the coordination of two words with and as conjunction, X and Y being of the same part of speech and parallel meanings. This paper is a cognitive study of the linear order...The English construction “X and Y ”refers to the coordination of two words with and as conjunction, X and Y being of the same part of speech and parallel meanings. This paper is a cognitive study of the linear order of the English construction “X and Y ”from the perspectives of cognitive salience, cognitive iconicity, and cognition of formal rules. The linear characteristics of “X and Y ” are revealed as follows： 1）salience-downgrading order; 2） chronological iconicity;3） cognition of alphabetic order and prosodic order.展开更多
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant No.13BZW106
文摘The English construction “X and Y ”refers to the coordination of two words with and as conjunction, X and Y being of the same part of speech and parallel meanings. This paper is a cognitive study of the linear order of the English construction “X and Y ”from the perspectives of cognitive salience, cognitive iconicity, and cognition of formal rules. The linear characteristics of “X and Y ” are revealed as follows： 1）salience-downgrading order; 2） chronological iconicity;3） cognition of alphabetic order and prosodic order.
