Reflections on the Comparison and Contrast of Chinese with the Western Languages.

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Take the passage cited in WCwCC (p.200) as an example: Yun shi yu Song wu (OEE?OUEIIa) Fall stone at Song five Five stones fell in Song. In this sentence, the order of the words exactly corresponded to the order of such an event. According to Pierce (1955/1902), this is one of the diagrammatic iconicities, which is called sequential (or temporal) iconicity...
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According to Pierce (1955/1902), this is one of the diagrammatic iconicities, which is called sequential (or temporal) iconicity. Whereas in the West, logic is adopted in language encoding, which we can see clearly from the English equivalent of the Chinese sentence above. Second, when these different views on languages are reflected in grammar, it is the different degrees of grammatical requirements of the Chinese and western languages...
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