The paper analyzes the onomatopoeia and phonetheme in the motivational codification as well as the iconicity of linguistic signs as the reflection of cultural confinement in linguistic codification.

Fromm attaches much importance to the analysis and understanding of symbolic language.

This paper regards that it may make up some shortcomings of the structuralism linguistics through stressing the research of symbolic language,thus the research of language may develop healthily.

In this thesis,the author focuses on poetry translation from the aspects of sound and explores the reproduction of "Beauty in sound" from sound symbolism,rhyme types and rhyme-schemes between English and Chinese.

The paper aims to investigate English sound symbolism,which is a language universal.

Sound symbolism is divided into direct sound symbolism and synaesthetic sound symbolism.

The paper deals with phonetic symbolism and phonological rhetoric devices: onomatopoeia, homoeotoleuton, alliteration, assonance, consonance and the comprehensive application of various sorts of phonological rhetoric devices.