Publications

Publication details [#43332]

Luk, Gigi. 2005. How iconic are Chinese characters? Bilingualism 8 (1) : 79–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

iconicity | knowledge | meaning | semantics1

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study investigates the statement that some Chinese characters possess pictorial meaning indications that can be employed to help retrieve the referent.