Politeness is an important research subject of pragmatics, politeness is also a strategy of communication. In people’s daily life, appropriate utterance politeness is the ultimate goal of human communication. Iconicity refers to the resemb...

this thesis aims to prove that onomatopoeia is iconically correspondent to its referent, by analyzing and classifying onomatopoeia. And then, according to the above, this thesis tries to put forward phonetic iconicity, and develop it into so...