Systematic Analysis on the Chinese Duplication in the View of Quantitative Iconicity;

Then, it lays out two important principles and theories in cognitive linguistics: quantity iconicity and decategorization, which provides the basis for later theoretical analysis.

Besides in syntactic structure,numerical iconicity is also reflected in politeness strategies used by people in the process of language communication,as the maxim goes “being polite is saying a bit more”.

The iconicity of politeness in the mental representation is discussed,which can be examined from cognitive context iconicity,pragmatic distance iconicity and scalar quantity iconicity.

This article mainly from the point of view of sentence structure analyzes language iconicity,such as distance iconicity,the order of iconicity,the number of iconicity and applied in language.

This paper discusses that two Chinese ways of expressing passive meaning——the ideational passives without marked words and the passives with marked words exemplify the principle of quantitative iconicity,and the former express the conventional high-predicted information in simple forms,while the latter express the unconventional low-predicted information in complex forms.