| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9页 |
| ·Research Significance | 第9-10页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第12-21页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Iconicity Theory | 第12-18页 |
| ·Saussure’s View of Arbitrariness | 第13页 |
| ·Peirce’s View of Iconicity | 第13-14页 |
| ·Haiman's View of Iconicity | 第14页 |
| ·Other Studies about Iconicity | 第14-16页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Iconicity | 第16-18页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Rhetoric | 第18-21页 |
| ·Traditional Perspective on Rhetoric | 第18-19页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Rhetoric | 第19-21页 |
| 3 Syntactic Iconicity and its Rhetorical Effects | 第21-36页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects | 第21-26页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects Produced By Using More Linguistic Signs | 第22-25页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects produced by Using Less Linguistic Signs | 第25-26页 |
| ·Order Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects | 第26-29页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects of Semantic Principle | 第26-27页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects of Pragmatic Principle | 第27-29页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects | 第29-31页 |
| ·Conceptual Distance | 第30页 |
| ·Social Distance | 第30-31页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects | 第31-36页 |
| ·Parody | 第32页 |
| ·Oxymoron | 第32-33页 |
| ·Exaggeration | 第33-34页 |
| ·Pun | 第34-36页 |
| 4 Syntactic Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects and English Reading and Writing | 第36-53页 |
| ·Syntactic Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects and English Reading Comprehension | 第36-46页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity and English Reading Comprehension | 第37-39页 |
| ·Order Iconicity and English Reading Comprehension | 第39-42页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity and English Reading Comprehension | 第42-44页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity and English Reading Comprehension | 第44-46页 |
| ·Syntactic Iconicity and Its Rhetorical Effects and English Writing | 第46-53页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity and English Writing | 第47-49页 |
| ·Order Iconicity and EnglishWriting | 第49-50页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity and English Writing | 第50-52页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity and English Writing | 第52-53页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第53-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-58页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第58-59页 |
| Publications | 第59页 |
