关键词: 认知语言学, 象似性, 顺序象似性, 英汉句法结构

Abstract: Iconicity is currently one of the hot topics in the frameworks of cognitive linguistics. The similarities and characteristics of syntactic structures in both of English and Chinese are discussed. In view of the semantic levels of English and Chinese syntactic structures, the iconicity of sequence which is reflected in the syntactic structures of English and Chinese, and as well as that which was subdivided into different dimensions in terms of time, space or conceptual perspectives are focused on. In the end, it is presented that English and Chinese syntax are motivated and the iconicity is common among them.

Key words: cognitive linguistics, iconicity, iconicity of sequence, English syntactic structure and Chinese syntactic structure