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 be...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.展开更多
Due to the particularity of structure and the universality of use,English existential sentences have always been one of the topics concerned by linguists.Within the framework of cognitive linguistics,this paper uses a...Due to the particularity of structure and the universality of use,English existential sentences have always been one of the topics concerned by linguists.Within the framework of cognitive linguistics,this paper uses a variety of theoretical perspectives(iconicity principle;grammaticalization;Prototype Category Theory)to make a multi-dimensional analysis of English existential sentences,including the generation,development and meaning expansion of English existential sentences.Cognitive linguistics contributes to the deepening of the study of English existential sentences,and the focus of the study shifts from the surface level to the deeper level.展开更多
Change-of-state events all involve complex event structures,but still differ in their levels of complexity.In Old Chinese,all types of change-of-state events could be expressed by individual characters,but as Chinese ...Change-of-state events all involve complex event structures,but still differ in their levels of complexity.In Old Chinese,all types of change-of-state events could be expressed by individual characters,but as Chinese evolved,many change-of-state expressions must resort to verbal compounds.By looking at the change-of-state expressions in different historical periods,this study finds that while the meaning of each character becomes increasingly atomic,the use of verbal compounds has been expanding The most dramatic expansion is seen in the expression of the gradient change of state,followed by the punctual change of state,but is not observed in the durative change-of-state expressions.Consistent with the principle of iconicity,“the durative change-the punctual change-the gradient change”represents a continuum of complexity in human conceptualization,with incremental mental distance between the action and the result state.This finding is also widely supported by cross-linguistic data.展开更多
基金funded by the planning Fund of Humanities and Social Sciences from Ministry of Education of China(NO.17YJA740012)From a Cognitive Perspective:A Contrastive Study of Existential Sentences in English and Chinese Based on Corpus.
文摘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.
文摘Due to the particularity of structure and the universality of use,English existential sentences have always been one of the topics concerned by linguists.Within the framework of cognitive linguistics,this paper uses a variety of theoretical perspectives(iconicity principle;grammaticalization;Prototype Category Theory)to make a multi-dimensional analysis of English existential sentences,including the generation,development and meaning expansion of English existential sentences.Cognitive linguistics contributes to the deepening of the study of English existential sentences,and the focus of the study shifts from the surface level to the deeper level.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No. 20FYYB043)。
文摘Change-of-state events all involve complex event structures,but still differ in their levels of complexity.In Old Chinese,all types of change-of-state events could be expressed by individual characters,but as Chinese evolved,many change-of-state expressions must resort to verbal compounds.By looking at the change-of-state expressions in different historical periods,this study finds that while the meaning of each character becomes increasingly atomic,the use of verbal compounds has been expanding The most dramatic expansion is seen in the expression of the gradient change of state,followed by the punctual change of state,but is not observed in the durative change-of-state expressions.Consistent with the principle of iconicity,“the durative change-the punctual change-the gradient change”represents a continuum of complexity in human conceptualization,with incremental mental distance between the action and the result state.This finding is also widely supported by cross-linguistic data.
