A Contrastive Study of Word Order between English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words from the Iconicity Perspective

目录

声明

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Research Purposes

1.2 Research Objectives and Significance

1.3 Research Methodology

1.3.1 Data-Collection

1.3.2 Research Procedure

1.4 Structure of the Thesis

Chapter 2 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction to Word Order

2.2 The Previous Study on Word Order of English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words

2.2.1 The Previous Study on Word Order of English Words in Pairs

2.2.2 The Previous Study on Word Order of Chinese Coordinate Compound Words

2.2.3 The Previous Contrastive Study on Word Order between the Two Types of Words

2.3 Limitations of the Previous Studies

Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework

3.1 Iconicity Theory

3.1.1 Definition of Iconicity

3.1.2 Iconicity and Arbitrariness

3.1.3 Peirce and Haiman’s Contributions to Iconicity

3.2 Main principles of Iconicity

3.2.1 The Principle of Sequence Iconicity

3.2.2 The Principle of Markedness Iconicity

3.2.3 The Principle of Conventional Cultural Iconicity

Chapter 4 The Contrastive Study on Word Order of English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words in terms of Iconicity

4.1 The comparability between English words in pairs and Chinese coordinate compound words

4.2 Sequence Iconicity of Word Order between English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words

4.2.1 Iconicity of Sequence in Temporal Scope

4.2.2 Iconicity of Sequence in Spatial Scope

4.2.3 Summary

4.3 Markedness Iconicity of Word Order between English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words

4.3.1 The Order from Human to Non-Human and from Animate to Inanimate between the Two Types of Words

4.3.2 The Order from Positive to Negative between the Two Types of Words

4.3.3 Summary

4.4 Conventional Cultural Iconicity of Word Order between English Words in Pairs and Chinese Coordinate Compound Words

4.4.1 The Embodiment of Honorable-Humble Relationship between the Two Types of Words

4.4.2 The Embodiment of Left-Right Relationship between the Two Types of Words

4.4.3 Summary

Chapter 5 Conclusion

5.1 Research Achievements

5.2 Research Limitations and Suggestions

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