A Brief Review of the History of Iconicity

• 발행기관: 영미어문학회
• 저자명: Lin Lu
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학연구』영미어문학연구 제23집 제1호, 27~49쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.05.01

영문 초록

  This paper aims to demonstrate a detailed development history of iconicity in its process of struggle against arbitrariness. The debate on arbitrariness and/or iconicity of language sign is one of the oldest in the history of linguistics. It never stopped until Saussure claimed his arbitrariness as the fundamental principle of language. However, iconicity approach did not give way to it, rather carried over and developed by a continuous chain of reflections. By now, it has influenced particular aspects of linguistics and maybe some other areas will shortly be influenced. The conclusion is that the development history of iconicity helps us witness the development history of the whole linguistic science.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. The Stage of Two Theories at a Deadlock(from the ancient Greek to late in the 19<SUP>th</SUP> century)
Ⅲ. The Stage of Saussure"s Arbitrariness (from the early 20th century to the 1960s)
Ⅳ. The Stage of Post-Saussure (from 1960s to the present)
Ⅴ. Conclusion
References

키워드

iconicity arbitrariness Platonic Paradigm Aristotelian-Saussurean Paradigm isomorphism motivation