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On The Phonetic Iconicity "Exception" And "Negative" Of Single-syllabled Antonyms In Modern Chinese

Posted on:2015-09-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431496631Subject:Chinese Philology
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Phonetic iconicity cognitive linguistics is an important concept. About thesignificance between iconicity in modern Chinese behave very prominent. Antonymsmonosyllabic words as the more obvious contrast domain, is often used as examplesof proof. Analysis monosyllabic sound and meaning the opposite of iconicity"exceptional" and "counter-examples" phenomenon paper uses statistics andquantitative and qualitative methods.Paper is divided into four parts:The introduction mainly monosyllabic antonyms iconicity research on the historyof sound and meaning issues to do with a brief description, and leads to problems.The first chapter is Mandarin, monosyllabic speech antonym of sound andmeaning between iconicity conduct statistical and statistical results are described. Asa result, the term is more inclined to speculate that the voice of this article series, inviolation of sound and meaning as the most significant features like, monosyllabicverbs and adjectives are also in violation of sound and meaning iconicity makeadequate examples certification.The second chapter of the six northern dialect dialect area outside the typicaldialect selected points, statistics antisense single syllable of the word446semanticdifferences in the performance of the speech on the situation. Statistics show that thebackground tone reflects the principle of convergence tendency is obvious. Frontvowels in part reflects our forecast of " counter-examples " and " exceptional"feature.The third chapter of the first two chapters of the statistical results wereexplained. Laterals, nasal pronunciation is not loud enough, will express a negativemeaning. Cognitive explanation, can be divided into different words plate, far fromthe natural pitch of the word, a positive word speech in the form of emotionalexpression in a number of more high-pitched.Epilogue outlining the scope of the data and conclusions in this article statistics,and presents inadequacies of the article, we are going to be further studied.
Keywords/Search Tags:Phonetic iconicity, monosyllabic antonyms, exception, counterexample
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