近年来语言界十分关注语言与现实、形式与意义之间是否存在理据性，即语言的能指与所指之间是象似的还是任意的这一话题，并存在争议。
In recent years , linguistic scholars have focused on the controversial issue that whether linguistic semiotics is arbitrary or iconic , or , in other words , whether there is a motivation between the form and meaning of a language .
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