Jonathan Swift is the supreme master of prose and one of the greatest satirists in English literature.This paper tries to analyze his famous satiric works,"A Modest Proposal" in a stylistic way.By using stylistic analysis,the author aims to help readers appreciate this essay much easier and get the conclusion that Swift censures the landlords and the English government should be responsible for all the misery of the Irish people and shows great sympathy for poor Irish people in this satire works.
Iconicity as one of the very important research items of cognitive linguistics refers to the natural, non-arbitrary rela?tionship between form and meaning. The study of iconicity has great significance of revealing the relationship between concept and cognition and can help people better understand the essence of language. This paper presents an analysis of the three iconicity principles- distance iconicity,quantity iconicity and sequencing iconicity-base on the relevance theory. The purpose of this pa?per is to offer a new dimension to iconicity analysis and finding more connections between the form of language and real mean?ing.
In this paper,the hybrid model based on the conceptual blending theory and qualia structure is applied to the interpretation of the meaning construction of typical hypallage.Based on this study,it has been proved that the hypallage is not only a creative and appealing linguistic phenomenon but also a productive cognitive operation based on the double scope integration which enable people to use the same modifier to describe the things which intuitively belong to distinct sort of types without any cognitive difficulties.
