Language Iconicity from Sociolinguistic Perspective
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Language Iconicity from Sociolinguistic Perspective
This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Social Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1911-2025,1911-2017
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v6n7p176