Iconicity functions both in cognition and representation. As a rhetoric device, language iconicity is found in every aspect of poetry helping to create images and bring about harmony.

象似性体现于人的认知过程中，又作用于人对客观世界自然、真实的描绘，语言象似性遍及诗歌的各个层面，起到修辞的效果，帮助实现诗歌形意和谐的审美功能。

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Together with our teaching practice, this essay will show how we apply English stylistic theory to comprehensive English teaching from structure of essay, cohesive device, language points and etc.

本文从语篇结构、照应手段、语言要素等方面，结合教学实践阐述了如何把英语文体学理论运用在综合英语教学中，从而最大限度地提高教学质量。

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Language of this source is a device, and in relation to other devices it's called a "function."

语言是一种工具，和其他工具一样有功能“

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Mr. SEAN LANAHAN (SpeechGear): I am demonstrating a language translation device at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

NPR: Consumer Electronics Show Abuzz About Mobility

If the answer is no (as some insist), then the mind may well contain the moral analogue of the Language Acquisition Device.

FORBES: Morality: Nature or Culture?

The device has two English language and four translation dictionaries built-in and provides up to two months battery life(with wireless off) and 2GB of storage.

ENGADGET: Sony Reader gets a new design, Evernote integration and a free Harry Potter book for $129