This mixed-method study investigated the correlation of sound symbolic associations with age and gender by analyzing data from a national survey of 292 American English speakers. Subjects used 10 semantic differential scales to rate six artificial brand names that targeted five phonemes. Subjects also described the potential products they imagined these artificial brand names to represent. Quantitative analysis alone provided insufficient evidence to conclude that age or gender affect sound symbolism in American English. While 26 out of 60 scales showed a monotonic shift among the means of the three age groups, only three were statistically significant. The evidence of differences between genders was similarly weak; only five scales out of 60 showed a statistically significant difference when comparing genders. Analysis of the qualitative data, however, suggested both monotonic generational shifts as well as generational blips in sound-symbolic associations. Of particular interest is the possible influence of pop culture, fashions, and fads, and society's shifting focus from broadcast to narrowcast media. The implications of this research are relevant for both theory (empirical evidence for iconicity in language) and application (e.g., devising brand names that communicate particular attributes to specific demographics).

There have been few studies conducted on how children from other than Western populations perceive and learn different graphic symbol sets or systems, especially on how children from poverty contexts learn graphic alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) symbols. Multicultural research is necessary in order to advance and to ensure the quality of the service of AAC for culturally and linguistically diverse AAC users. In the present study the authors strive to describe the learnability of the Blissymbol system in a non-western culture using a semiotic theoretical framework. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the iconicity and learnability of the Blissymbol system for Kenyan children with two different language backgrounds, Swahili and English. This was done in an attempt to investigate potential cultural and linguistic influences of the interpretation and learnability of the Blissymbol. The design and test material was adopted from a previous study (Jennische & Zetterlund, 2012). In the present study, 127 typically developed children in the age six to seven in class one or two in primary school, both from private and public schools, participated. The children had never before encountered Bliss. The children were asked to interpret single Bliss-words and compound Bliss-words, first spontaneously through giving free proposals and then after being given an instructive explanation. The test results were analyzed on a group level and compared between the different groups (age, class and language background). The results show that there was a significant improvement between the pretest and the posttest for all children in the different groups. This indicates that the Blissymbols used in this study had a generally low transparency but a generally high translucency. The results also indicate a generally high learnability and that the children were aided by the instructive explanation. Furthermore, there were significant differences between the different groups, where the children from class two performed better than children from class one and where the English-speaking children performed better than the Swahili-speaking children overall. Age was not significant. The results also indicate that there were differences in how the children interpreted the symbols, but that there were similarities within the specific groups. Further, this indicates that the symbols were interpreted in a similar way by children that belonged to the same age, language and socioeconomic background.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de décrire les usages de la voix dans les échanges ordinaires et rituels des Quechua d’Amazonie péruvienne (Pastaza) et le rôle qui leur est dévolu dans la transmission de la pensée animiste. Comment les Quechua se représentent-ils l’usage de la voix ? Qui parle ? La thèse examine le rôle de l’imaginaire acoustique dans la conceptualisation du langage et de la communication, mais aussi au sein des pratiques et des représentations de la chasse et de la maladie chez les Quechua d’Amazonie. L’analyse du discours montre que l’usage du « masque sonore » et les mécanismes de « voix citées » jouent un rôle clef dans le processus d’attribution d’une « agentivité » aux entités non humaines. Une attention particulière est accordée aux différentes modalités de communication rituelle à travers plusieurs styles discursifs, en particulier un répertoire de chants lyriques, cynégétiques et thérapeutiques. Adoptant une perspective pragmatique, l’auteur décrit les conditions d’apprentissage du savoir rituel et focalise son attention sur un dispositif de mise en abîme de la voix des esprits dans l’énonciation rituelle. Une étude linguistique sensible aux variations discursives montre que cette technique de citation d’une voix non humaine, observée lors de la transmission des chants, trouve un écho remarquable au sein de leur structure poétique. L’auteur soutient que la manipulation indexicale du symbolisme sonore joue un rôle clef dans la performance accomplie, conférant au chasseur-chamane le pouvoir de prêter sa voix aux esprits invoqués. Cette étude pourrait ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives dans les recherches consacrées aux discours rituels amérindiens. / This thesis aims at describing the use of the voice in ordinary an ritual interactions among the Quechua of the Peruvian Amazon (Pastaza), and the role devoted to communication in the transmission of animism. How do the Quechua represent the use of the voice ? Who talks ? This thesis examines the role of acoustic imagination in the quechua conceptualization of language and communication but also in the practice and representation of hunting and sickness among the Quechua of Amazonia. The use of « acoustic sound mask » and « quoted voice » mechanisms play a key role in the attribution of an « agency » to non human entities. Sound imitation appears as an effective perceptive and cognitive strategy, heavily used in the context of learning animistic representations. A close attention is paid to the various modalities of ritual communication through different styles of discourse, particularly in lyrical, therapeutical and cynegetical songs. Adopting a pragmatic perspective, the author describes the learning context of ritual knowledge and pays close attention to the embedding of spirit voices in ritual discourse. A linguistic analysis, sensitive to the discursive variations, shows that this technique of quotation of a non-human voice, observed during the transmission of ritual songs, has a remarkable echo in its own poetic structure. Through the study of these enunciative devices, the author demonstrates that the indexical use of sound symbolism plays a key role in the performance achieved, allowing the hunter-shaman to lend his voice to the spirits invoked. This study could open new perspectives for research on Amerindian ritual discourses.

This paper proposes that SOUND SYMBOLISM, and more specifically PHONEMIC ICONICITY, plays a role in conveying emotional weight in the context of poetry. Previous research has indicated that the ratio of plosives to nasals in poetry predicts overall perception of emotional affect, with plosives designating activity and pleasantness, and nasals designating inactivity and unpleasantness (Auracher, Albers, Zhai, Gareeva, & Stavniychuk 2010); however, this research has ignored the influence of such potentially mitigating factors as orthography and lexical meaning. The current study involves naive English L1 speakers listening to recordings of selected haiku from Matsuo Basho's Oku No Hosomichi (`Narrow Road to the Deep North') in the original Japanese, and as such, the potential of orthography and lexical meaning to influence perception of emotion is eliminated. After listening to each haiku twice, subjects were asked to rate the appropriateness of eight emotion words that ranged from active and positive to inactive and positive, and from active and negative to inactive and negative, on a five-point Likert scale. Emotion words were chosen on the basis of their respective positions on the Circumplex Model of Affect, in which each emotion is conceptualized in terms of its location along two intersecting axes measuring valence (negative - positive) and arousal (inactive - active) (Russell 1980). The selected words occupied regularly spaced positions along this two-dimensional circular model. Results indicate that plosive to nasal ratio may indeed play a role in the perception of emotion in poetry, particularly in the case of poems with high plosive to nasal ratios, which were perceived as markedly more active and positive than other poems. Wider implications of the discernible patterns of perception of emotional affect based on plosive to nasal ratio include the possibility that phonemic iconicity plays a role in general language processing. As this research involves Japanese L2 phonemic perception by naÃ&hibar;ve English L1 listeners, current L2 phonological perceptual theory is discussed, and taken into account in the analysis of the results. Specific consideration is given to the potential of English L1 speakers to perceive the Japanese rhotic /r/, which does not appear in English, as the plosives /t/ or /d/, and the Japanese affricate /ts/, which commonly appears syllable-initially in Japanese, but is much rarer in this position in English, as /s/ (Nozawa 2008). Future research on English L1 speakers' underlying perceptual categorizations of targeted sounds in Japanese is also proposed.

Esta pesquisa dedica-se a realizar um trabalho com base no diálogo entre teorias semióticas e a Linguística de Córpus, estudando, especificamente, marcas linguísticas que possam caracterizar o perfil do brasileiro e suas características socioculturais plurais. Interessam-nos, sobretudo, os substantivos e adjetivos em função nomeadora e/ou qualificadora dos termos Brasil e brasileiro. Com isso, pretende-se oferecer um panorama bastante próximo da realidade linguística do brasileiro e de sua identidade. Para que os resultados sejam significativos, contamos com o concurso da Linguística de Córpus, servindo-nos de base a obra Linguística de Corpus (SARDINHA, 2004). Com a Linguística de Córpus, adotando a pesquisa direcionada pelo córpus (corpus-driven research) como metodologia, se pôde levantar, quantificar e tabular os signos em uso, identificando-lhes a frequência e a organização em feixes lexicais para avaliá-los quanto à significância no trato comunicativo. No desenvolvimento da análise e leitura crítica dos dados coletados, amparou-nos a Semiótica de extração peirceana, mais especificamente da Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal (SIMÕES, 2007), que permitiu delinear o potencial icônico das palavras de busca e de seus colocados. Com relação ao conceito de identidade em suas faces filosófica, social e antropológica, fornecem-nos suporte os pensamentos de NIETZSCHE (1991) acerca da necessidade do esquecimento para a construção de uma identidade e de HALL (1998), quanto aos eixos temporais que presidem o processamento discursivo dos fatos históricos e, por conseguinte, da construção identitária. O contraponto entre estes últimos autores contribui para a definição dos gêneros textuais interessantes à pesquisa, basicamente os textos argumentativos, publicados em jornais de grande circulação, no eixo Rio-São Paulo. A respeito da identidade na sociedade em rede, característica da contemporaneidade, apoia-nos obra de CASTELLS (2006). Os estudos específicos sobre a identidade nacional amparam-se sobretudo em DAMATTA (1978 e 1989) e LEITE (2007). A pesquisa demonstrou que a iconicidade lexical vem a ser mais apropriadamente delineada a partir de um universo de dados amplo, ao qual se tem acesso a partir da Linguística de Córpus, sendo, portanto, correto afirmar que os traços componentes da identidade brasileira podem ser apreendidos em seu estágio atual com base na análise de um córpus construído a partir de textos publicados em jornais, representativos das vozes e do pensamento de um estrato social formador de opinião. No contexto de transformações sociais e políticas que ocorrem no Brasil entre os anos 2005 e 2010, a investigação da identidade nacional e a apuração do autoconceito do brasileiro pôde apontar que alguns paradigmas historicamente estabelecidos estão sendo alterados, enquanto outros ainda persistem. O perfil identitário apurado pela pesquisa favorece a construção, por parte do estudioso da linguagem e, mais especificamente, do docente de língua portuguesa, de uma visão atualizada da identidade nacional, no recorte analisado, permitindo um trabalho consciente com as habilidades e competências vinculadas ao desenvolvimento da identidade nacional, conforme orientam os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais / This research has the purpose to perform a survey based on the dialogue between semiotic theories and Corpus Linguistics, studying, specifically, the language marks that may characterize the profile of the various Brazilian socio-cultural characteristics. Our special interest is to focus on the nouns and adjectives that nominate and / or qualify the terms 'Brazil' and 'Brazilian'. Through this study, we intend to reach a panorama which is very close to the linguistic reality of the Brazilian people and their identity. We have worked with the Corpus Linguistics, based on the book Corpus Linguistics (SARDINHA, 2004). We chose the corpus-driven research as a method, which allows raising, quantifying and tabulating the signs in use, in order to identify their frequency and lexical organization in bundles, so that they could be evaluated as to their significance in the communicative scene. The theories and works that bolstered this thesis were the Semiotics by Charles Sanders PEIRCE (2000), the works on semiotics by ECO (2007) and SANTAELLA (1996, 2000 e 2001), and the Theory of Verbal Iconicity (SIMOES, 2007). This one aims to establish the iconic potential of the search words in their context. Regarding the philosophical, social and anthropological readings on identity, this work is supported by the thoughts of NIETZSCHE (1991) in an article on the need of forgetfulness in order to build an identity. Another work which supports our conclusions is HALLs paper (1998) on the timelines that govern the discourse processing of the historical facts, which shows how they interfere in the construction of the identity. The counterpoint between these latter authors contribute to the definition of the text genre relevant to this research there were used basically argumentative texts, published in major newspapers in Rio and Sao Paulo. Regarding the identity in the network society as a contemporary issue, the work of CASTELLS (2006) was of great help. The studies on the Brazilian identity by DAMATTA (1978 and 1989) and LEITE (2002) also give basis to the considerations of this thesis. The research showed that the lexical iconicity comes to be more appropriately viewed from a broad universe of data, which has been provided by a large corpus (8 million words approximately) dealt with in the Corpus Linguistics methodology. Its therefore correct to say that components of Brazilian identity may be seized in its current state based on the analysis of a corpus built from texts published in newspapers, representing the voices and thoughts of a social stratum and opinion formers. The investigation of national identity and the self-concept of the Brazilian in the context of social and political transformations that have occurred in Brazil between 2005 and 2010 pointed out that some historically established paradigms have been going through a process of change, while others have persisted. The National Curriculum Parameters in Brazil establish topics on national identity to be developed by native teachers of Portuguese language. The results of this work are meant to be helpful to the aforementioned teachers

Esta pesquisa dedica-se a realizar um trabalho com base no diálogo entre teorias semióticas e a Linguística de Córpus, estudando, especificamente, marcas linguísticas que possam caracterizar o perfil do brasileiro e suas características socioculturais plurais. Interessam-nos, sobretudo, os substantivos e adjetivos em função nomeadora e/ou qualificadora dos termos Brasil e brasileiro. Com isso, pretende-se oferecer um panorama bastante próximo da realidade linguística do brasileiro e de sua identidade. Para que os resultados sejam significativos, contamos com o concurso da Linguística de Córpus, servindo-nos de base a obra Linguística de Corpus (SARDINHA, 2004). Com a Linguística de Córpus, adotando a pesquisa direcionada pelo córpus (corpus-driven research) como metodologia, se pôde levantar, quantificar e tabular os signos em uso, identificando-lhes a frequência e a organização em feixes lexicais para avaliá-los quanto à significância no trato comunicativo. No desenvolvimento da análise e leitura crítica dos dados coletados, amparou-nos a Semiótica de extração peirceana, mais especificamente da Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal (SIMÕES, 2007), que permitiu delinear o potencial icônico das palavras de busca e de seus colocados. Com relação ao conceito de identidade em suas faces filosófica, social e antropológica, fornecem-nos suporte os pensamentos de NIETZSCHE (1991) acerca da necessidade do esquecimento para a construção de uma identidade e de HALL (1998), quanto aos eixos temporais que presidem o processamento discursivo dos fatos históricos e, por conseguinte, da construção identitária. O contraponto entre estes últimos autores contribui para a definição dos gêneros textuais interessantes à pesquisa, basicamente os textos argumentativos, publicados em jornais de grande circulação, no eixo Rio-São Paulo. A respeito da identidade na sociedade em rede, característica da contemporaneidade, apoia-nos obra de CASTELLS (2006). Os estudos específicos sobre a identidade nacional amparam-se sobretudo em DAMATTA (1978 e 1989) e LEITE (2007). A pesquisa demonstrou que a iconicidade lexical vem a ser mais apropriadamente delineada a partir de um universo de dados amplo, ao qual se tem acesso a partir da Linguística de Córpus, sendo, portanto, correto afirmar que os traços componentes da identidade brasileira podem ser apreendidos em seu estágio atual com base na análise de um córpus construído a partir de textos publicados em jornais, representativos das vozes e do pensamento de um estrato social formador de opinião. No contexto de transformações sociais e políticas que ocorrem no Brasil entre os anos 2005 e 2010, a investigação da identidade nacional e a apuração do autoconceito do brasileiro pôde apontar que alguns paradigmas historicamente estabelecidos estão sendo alterados, enquanto outros ainda persistem. O perfil identitário apurado pela pesquisa favorece a construção, por parte do estudioso da linguagem e, mais especificamente, do docente de língua portuguesa, de uma visão atualizada da identidade nacional, no recorte analisado, permitindo um trabalho consciente com as habilidades e competências vinculadas ao desenvolvimento da identidade nacional, conforme orientam os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais / This research has the purpose to perform a survey based on the dialogue between semiotic theories and Corpus Linguistics, studying, specifically, the language marks that may characterize the profile of the various Brazilian socio-cultural characteristics. Our special interest is to focus on the nouns and adjectives that nominate and / or qualify the terms 'Brazil' and 'Brazilian'. Through this study, we intend to reach a panorama which is very close to the linguistic reality of the Brazilian people and their identity. We have worked with the Corpus Linguistics, based on the book Corpus Linguistics (SARDINHA, 2004). We chose the corpus-driven research as a method, which allows raising, quantifying and tabulating the signs in use, in order to identify their frequency and lexical organization in bundles, so that they could be evaluated as to their significance in the communicative scene. The theories and works that bolstered this thesis were the Semiotics by Charles Sanders PEIRCE (2000), the works on semiotics by ECO (2007) and SANTAELLA (1996, 2000 e 2001), and the Theory of Verbal Iconicity (SIMOES, 2007). This one aims to establish the iconic potential of the search words in their context. Regarding the philosophical, social and anthropological readings on identity, this work is supported by the thoughts of NIETZSCHE (1991) in an article on the need of forgetfulness in order to build an identity. Another work which supports our conclusions is HALLs paper (1998) on the timelines that govern the discourse processing of the historical facts, which shows how they interfere in the construction of the identity. The counterpoint between these latter authors contribute to the definition of the text genre relevant to this research there were used basically argumentative texts, published in major newspapers in Rio and Sao Paulo. Regarding the identity in the network society as a contemporary issue, the work of CASTELLS (2006) was of great help. The studies on the Brazilian identity by DAMATTA (1978 and 1989) and LEITE (2002) also give basis to the considerations of this thesis. The research showed that the lexical iconicity comes to be more appropriately viewed from a broad universe of data, which has been provided by a large corpus (8 million words approximately) dealt with in the Corpus Linguistics methodology. Its therefore correct to say that components of Brazilian identity may be seized in its current state based on the analysis of a corpus built from texts published in newspapers, representing the voices and thoughts of a social stratum and opinion formers. The investigation of national identity and the self-concept of the Brazilian in the context of social and political transformations that have occurred in Brazil between 2005 and 2010 pointed out that some historically established paradigms have been going through a process of change, while others have persisted. The National Curriculum Parameters in Brazil establish topics on national identity to be developed by native teachers of Portuguese language. The results of this work are meant to be helpful to the aforementioned teachers

Esta tese destina-se a desenvolver estudo semiótico de propagandas impressas em que a pessoa negra é posta em presença. Investiga-se como a propaganda veiculada em revista, mediante seleção e combinação sígnicas, efetiva a construção da imagem verbo-visual do negro, tendo em vista o produto anunciado e os projetos comunicativos do enunciador e, assim, como finda por ratificar ou (re)elaborar significados sociais acerca desse sujeito. Pautando-se na Semiótica de Charles Sanders Peirce e tendo por suporte, fundamentalmente, a Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal de Simões (2009), a pesquisa aborda todos os signos verbais e não verbais em diálogo, como dotados de potencial icônico, não só revelador dos projetos de texto, como também ativador de interpretações/leituras e, ainda, delineador de sentidos, posteriormente cristalizados e convertidos em significados imanentes aos signos e aos objetos reportados. Por ter, como material constitutivo do corpus, textos elaborados em linguagem mista, a pesquisa propõe a aplicação da Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal ao universo dos signos lato sensu. O debate apresenta o texto de propaganda como excelente material, não só para implementar os estudos de História e Cultura Afro-brasileiras, como prevê a Lei 10.639/03, como também para subsidiar o ensino de língua portuguesa, com ênfase para os estudos sobre leitura e produção textual, para que se forme sujeito dotado de habilidades que lhe permitam reconhecer no verbal e no não verbal a revelação e a geração de sentidos sociais / This thesis is destined to develop the semiotics study of the printed advertisement where the black person is placed in presence. It is investigated as the advertising propagated in magazine, by means of election and meaning combination of signs accomplishes the construction of verbal/visual blacks image, in the announced products view and the communicative annunciators projects; and, thus, how it terminates for ratifying or elaborating or (re) elaborate social meanings about that being. Basing on the Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and having for support, basically, the Theory of the Verbal Iconicidade of Simões (2009), the research approaches all the verbal signs and the no verbal ones in dialogue, as endowed with iconic potential, not only discloser of the texts projects, as well as activator of interpretations/readings and, yet, delineator of feelings, subsequently crystallized and converted into intrinsic meanings to the signs and to the reported objects. For having, as material constituent of the corpus, texts elaborated in mixing language, the research proposes the application of the Iconicity Verbal to the universe of the signs lato sensu. The discussion presents the advertisement text as excellent material not only to implement the studies of History and Culture Afro-Brazilians, as she foresees Law 10,639/03, as well as to assist the study of the Portuguese language, expressively for the studies of reading and textual production, in order to mould a being endowed with abilities that allow him to recognize in the verbal and in the no verbal, the revelation and the generation of the social feelings

The aim of this essay is to examine whether language is iconic or arbitrary in the issue of onomatopoeia, i.e. whether animal sounds are represented in the same way in different languages. In addition, I will also look at onomatopoeical words which have been conventionalised, when the meaning broadened and they finally became part of ordinary language. It can be stated that arbitrary signs have slowly taken over as different languages have developed, but the reason why is a topic for discussion – is there a scientific cause, based on the theory of evolution, or an explanation found in religious myths? Whatever the reason is, it is not likely that iconicity will vanish totally. It is connected to human neurophysiology and an ancient part of language, a natural resemblance between an object and a sign which can exist in different forms. Onomatopoeia is one example of iconic signs, an object named after the sound it produces, and according to one theory conventionalised imitations is actually the origin of language. Nevertheless, there are two main categories – language being either iconic or arbitrary. Regarding onomatopoeia, my results suggest that language is only iconic to a limited extent. English and Swedish have some common representations of animal sounds, but the languages also differ in many ways. Conventionalising seems common in both languages and many of the words in my survey have been incorporated in dictionaries, representing more than only the sound of a certain animal.

Everyday communication occurs mostly through speech, thus learners who have little or no functional speech (LNFS) need to augment their communication by using additional communication strategies to ensure that they are able to participate in the interaction process. The use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) can and should play an important role in assisting learners with LNFS to access information and services and to communicate. Graphic symbols form an important part of most AAC users’ communication systems. Therefore studies which focus on increasing understanding of the way different graphic symbols are learnt and retained by children and adults, are pivotal for a better understanding of the processes involved in graphic symbol learning. Iconicity and learnability of symbols are two important factors to consider when choosing an appropriate graphic symbol set/system. The purpose of the current study was to determine how accurately typically developing urban, 6-year-old Afrikaans-speaking children could firstly, identify 16 PCS presented thematically on a commercially available communication overlay, and secondly, recognize these symbols following exposure to a learning experience. Forty-six participants, divided into 2 cohorts, were each presented with 16 copies of a 16-matrix overlay and required to match a symbol with a spoken Afrikaans label. The participants were then divided into two groups, one group receiving training in the meaning of the symbols and the other group receiving no training. Finally the test-procedure was repeated with the cohorts. The results indicated that the 16 PCS symbols had an iconicity of between 12.5 % (accuracy score > 50 %) and 25 % (accuracy score > 75 %) for the combined group. Results further indicated a significant improvement in both the experimental and the control groups’ post-test results. The significant difference between the two groups’ post-test results does, however, indicate that the experimental group recognized more symbols during the post-test administration than the control group and they had thus benefited from the training session. The control group’s better post-test results can be attributed to the single exposure through the pre-test procedure. The participants made use of the information afforded them by the postural cues implying motion. They did not, however, make full use of the arrow cues or the direction of the arrows, which also implied motion. Once the participants of the experimental group were made aware of the arrows, they seemed to use the information the arrows offered to help them remember the symbol meanings during the post-test procedure. Copyright 2004, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Basson, HM 2004, The iconicity and learnability of selected picture communication symbols : a study on Afrikaans-speaking children, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10042005-155306/ > / Dissertation (M (Alternative and Augmentative Communication))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication / unrestricted

La notion d' iconicité¦ est devenue aujourd'hui un sujet fécond au sein de la linguistique cognitive occidentale. Nous avons choisi d'étudier le problème de l'iconicité dans le cadre de la grammaire du chinois. Comme toute langue " idéographique", le chinois mandarin relève évidemment d'une iconicité de haut degré par son écriture. Dans l'histoire de linguistique chinoise, beaucoup d'é¦tudes ont été faites sur la ressemblance entre la forme du caractère chinois et le sens qu'il représente. Or, c'est depuis une trentaine d'années que nous avons commencé à développer la notion d'iconicité dans les domaines phonétique et syntaxique, avec l'introduction de la linguistique cognitive en Chine. Dans cette thèse, nous allons développer la notion d'iconicité dans la grammaire du chinois à travers trois aspects : la phonétique, l'écriture chinoise et la syntaxe. D'abondants exemples serviront de fil organisateur à notre exposé. / The notion of iconicity has become an interesting topic in the Western cognitive linguistics today. We chose to study the problem of iconicity in the context of Chinese grammar. Like any "ideographic" language, the Mandarin Chinese reveal a high degree of iconicity by his writing. In the history of Chinese linguistics, many studies have been done on the similarity between the form of the Chinese character and the sense which it represents. However, we only began to develop the notion of iconicity in the phonetic and syntactic domains with the introduction of cognitive linguistics in China thirty years ago. In this thesis, we will develop the notion of iconicity in the grammar of Chinese in three aspects by giving abundant exemples: phonetics, Chinese characters and syntax.