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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Iconicity in grammar chinese

Yifan Ma

subject

ChinoisGrammarChineseGrammaireÉcriture chinoisePhoneticIconicityIconicitéSyntaxPhonétiqueChinese characters[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/LinguisticsSyntaxe

description

The notion of iconicity has become an interesting topic in the Western cognitive linguistics today. We chose to study the problem of iconicity in the context of Chinese grammar. Like any "ideographic" language, the Mandarin Chinese reveal a high degree of iconicity by his writing. In the history of Chinese linguistics, many studies have been done on the similarity between the form of the Chinese character and the sense which it represents. However, we only began to develop the notion of iconicity in the phonetic and syntactic domains with the introduction of cognitive linguistics in China thirty years ago. In this thesis, we will develop the notion of iconicity in the grammar of Chinese in three aspects by giving abundant exemples: phonetics, Chinese characters and syntax.

https://theses.hal.science/tel-01128361