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.

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”.

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.

The article analyzes the relationship of dominating quantitative degree conveyed in the different questionary sentences and tries to provide a rational solution concerning the contents and questionary sentences relationship from the angle of cognition.