On the Motivation of Language and Expression in the Chinese language

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10.2991/icassr-15.2016.281How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language symbols ;Motivation; Iconicity; Chinese language

Abstract

The language symbols can be proved and has the very strong motivation that is both direct or indirect . Iconicity is the most important form of Motivation, it is the simulation relation of the language structure and cognitive structure, or is the relationship between language forms and features of the objective world. it can also be a link between the source words and new words. The image of Iconicity is the psychological image, but not is the object image. The Chinese language has the very strong motivation, the motivation can be detected four aspects of language. such as phonetic, characters , grammar. Syntactic iconicity is the most obvious.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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