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A RESEARCH INTO THE ICONICITY IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE PUNCTUATION MARKS

Wang Ge-ying

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Iconicity,an essential part of cognitive linguistics,regards linguistic structures and signs as directly reflecting concepts and experience structures.Punctuation marks,an inseparable part of language and representation of structured experience,are motivated to a certain extent.In the use of English and Chinese punctuation marks,there exist the iconicity of distance,the iconicity of quantity and the iconicity of marked terms.

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Iconicity,an essential part of cognitive linguistics,regards linguistic structures and signs as directly reflecting concepts and experience structures.Punctuation marks,an inseparable part of language and representation of structured experience,are motivated to a certain extent.In the use of English and Chinese punctuation marks,there exist the iconicity of distance,the iconicity of quantity and the iconicity of marked terms.

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Iconicity,an essential part of cognitive linguistics,regards linguistic structures and signs as directly reflecting concepts and experience structures.Punctuation marks,an inseparable part of language and representation of structured experience,are motivated to a certain extent.In the use of English and Chinese punctuation marks,there exist the iconicity of distance,the iconicity of quantity and the iconicity of marked terms.

Key concepts: Iconicity, Punctuation, Linguistics, Representation (politics), Cognitive linguistics, Cognition, Psychology, History

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