Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research

On the Motivation of Language and Expression in the Chinese language

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Shou-Yan Miao
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Shou-Yan Miao
Available Online August 2016.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
August 2016
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978-94-6252-148-3
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1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icassr-15.2016.281How to use a DOI?
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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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