2009•Journal of Hunan First Normal UniversityRequires access

Analysis of Characteristics of Linguistic Iconicity Between Rhetoric Form and Its Meaning

Liu Y

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Linguistic Iconicity means that language forms reflect not only the features of the objective things in a certain degree,but the way people experience,sense and cognize the world.And rhetoric like parallelism,hyperbole embodies iconicity.The paper uses several rhetorics correlating with quantity iconicity to prove that there exists motivation between a form and the meaning of rhetoric.

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Key concepts: Iconicity, Hyperbole, Rhetoric, Linguistics, Meaning (existential), Parallelism (grammar), Sociology, Philosophy