封面
声明
中文摘要
英文摘要
目录
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Purposes
1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Development of Comparative Linguistics
2.2 Development of Discourse Analysis
2.2.1 A Brief History of Discourse Analysis
2.2.2 Description of Contrastive Discourse Analysis Abroad
2.2.3 Description of Contrastive Discourse Analysis at Home
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework
3.1 The Explanation of Language Universals
3.1.1 Relationship between Linguistic Individuality and Language Universals
3.1.2 Different Views about Language Universals
3.2 Iconicity Theory
3.2.1 Definition of Iconicity
3.2.2 Development of Iconicity Theory
Chapter Four Comparison of English and Chinese Texts from the Perspective of Iconicity
4.1 Sequence Iconicity
4.2 Markedness Iconicity
4.3 Quantity Iconicity
4.3.1 Using Less Linguistic Signs in Structuring the Text
4.3.2 Using More Linguistic Signs in Text Structure
4.4 Distance Iconicity
4.5 Topic Iconicity
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Findings of the Thesis
5.2 Limitations of the Thesis
参考文献
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