| Contents | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract in English | 第8-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·The Notion of Iconicity | 第13-14页 |
| ·A Review of the Research into Iconicity | 第14-21页 |
| ·A survey of historical concern with arbitrariness and iconicity of linguistic signs | 第14-18页 |
| ·Pre-Saussure Peroid | 第16页 |
| ·Saussure Peroid | 第16-17页 |
| ·Post-Saussure Period | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Status quo of studies of iconicity | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Theoretical Insight into Iconicity | 第21-30页 |
| ·Semiotic Foundations of Iconicit y | 第21-25页 |
| ·Saussures’semiotic theory | 第22页 |
| ·Peirces’semiotic theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·Other semiotic theories | 第24-25页 |
| ·Philosophical Foundations of Iconicity | 第25-28页 |
| ·Traditional philosophy | 第25-26页 |
| ·Cognitive philosophy | 第26-27页 |
| ·Embodied philosophy | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Relationships between Semiotics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Manifestations of Iconicity of Linguistic Signs from a Pragmatic Point of View | 第30-74页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity from a Pragmatic Point of View | 第30-38页 |
| ·Quantity iconicity in terms of single syntax | 第31-34页 |
| ·Quantity iconicity in terms of multi-syntax | 第34-38页 |
| ·Relation Iconicity from a Pragmatic Point of View | 第38-55页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of temporality | 第38-45页 |
| ·Iconicity in content domain | 第39-43页 |
| ·Iconicity in epistemic domain | 第43-45页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of spatiality | 第45-55页 |
| ·Iconicity of physical space | 第46-51页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of simple adjacency | 第47-48页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of relative adjacency | 第48-50页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of graphology | 第50-51页 |
| ·Iconicity of mental space | 第51-55页 |
| ·Iconicity of self-centered perception | 第52-54页 |
| ·Iconicity of society-centered perception | 第54-55页 |
| ·Quality Iconicity from a Pragmatic Point of View | 第55-64页 |
| ·Quality iconicity on a macro level | 第57页 |
| ·Quality iconicity on a micro level | 第57-64页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of information salience | 第57-60页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of markedness | 第60-62页 |
| ·Iconicity in terms of prosodic features | 第62-64页 |
| ·Modality Iconicity from a Pragmatic Point of View | 第64-74页 |
| ·Modality Iconicity in terms of psychological distance caused by power | 第64-70页 |
| ·Expressions in social status | 第65-66页 |
| ·Expressions in social distance | 第66-67页 |
| ·Expressions in the weight of imposition | 第67-68页 |
| ·Expressions in social performance | 第68-70页 |
| ·Modality Iconicity in terms of interpersonal rapport caused by solidarity | 第70-74页 |
| ·Expressions in the concealment of the real intention | 第70-71页 |
| ·Expressions in indeterminacy | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Four Iconicity and its Pedagogical Implications | 第74-78页 |
| ·The Relationship between Linguistic View and Foreign Language Teaching | 第74-75页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications of Iconicity | 第75-78页 |
| ·Iconicity and grammar teaching | 第75-76页 |
| ·Iconicity and reading comprehension | 第76-78页 |
| Conclusion | 第78-81页 |
| Notes | 第81-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-89页 |
| Publications | 第89页 |
