Author(s)

Qiang Yali ¹, Liu Yuncai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangdong University of Science & Technology, Dongguan, 523083, China

Corresponding Author

Qiang Yali

ABSTRACT

This paper exploresorder iconicity in English euphemismfrom the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The study covers introduction,iconicity of language,order iconicity,the principle of order iconicity, order iconicity in English euphemismandconclusion.Order iconicity is mainly reflected at the syntactic level and it is primarily expressed in linear sequence of time and space.However, since English is a grammatical language, and there are many tenses, aspects and conjunctions to indicate the time of action, English sentence order can be free from the constraint of temporal order and can be arranged by the traditions or by authors' pragmatic intentions.

KEYWORDS

Order Iconicity; Syntactic Iconicity; English Euphemism

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiang Yali, Liu Yuncai, Order Iconicity in English Euphemism. Art and Performance Letters (2022) Vol. 3: 21-24. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2022.030305.

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