Abstract:Language is a kind of sign,which serves as the tool for us to express both of our outside and inner world.The relationship between a linguistic sign and the thing it refers to has always been a matter...Language is a kind of sign,which serves as the tool for us to express both of our outside and inner world.The relationship between a linguistic sign and the thing it refers to has always been a matter of concern for the semioticians as well as the linguists.The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign proposed by Saussure is becoming increasingly untenable.Instead,iconicity of the linguistic sign advanced by Pierce,the famous American semiotician,is attracting more and more attention.His theory of iconicity has proved that the basic levels of language,ie word,sentence and discourse are iconic to some extent.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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