Linguistic Sign's Arbitrariness and Motivation from the Perspective of Metonymy  

作　　者：吴蕾 

机构地区：[1]School of Foreign Languages, Nantong University

出　　处：《海外英语》2018年第14期237-237,241,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Over the past decades,the issue of linguistic sign's arbitrariness and motivation has been one of the focal points in academic discussion.In modern cognitive linguistics,metonymy is regarded as conceptual contiguity and the cognitive thought of human is characterized by metonymy.Symbolization of the objective world depends on metonymic mechanism and metonymic substitution exists widely in daily communication.In terms of metonymy,not only the combination of a sound pattern and a concept but also the choices of metonymy's preferred vehicles reflect arbitrariness and motivation of linguistic signs,thus forming subjective results based on the common cognitive rules.Over the past decades,the issue of linguistic sign＇s arbitrariness and motivation has been one of the focal points in academic discussion.In modern cognitive linguistics,metonymy is regarded as conceptual contiguity and the cognitive thought of human is characterized by metonymy.Symbolization of the objective world depends on metonymic mechanism and metonymic substitution exists widely in daily communication.In terms of metonymy,not only the combination of a sound pattern and a concept but also the choices of metonymy＇s preferred vehicles reflect arbitrariness and motivation of linguistic signs,thus forming subjective results based on the common cognitive rules.

关 键 词：英语 学习方法 阅读 

分 类 号：H0-06[语言文字—语言学]