| Autor: |
Zhao, Qingqing, Huang, Chu-Ren, Long, Yunfei |
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Linguistics; Sep2018, Vol. 56 Issue 5, p1167-1194, 28p, 1 Diagram, 8 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
This study adopted a corpus-based approach to examine the synaesthetic metaphors of gustatory adjectives in Mandarin. Based on the distribution of synaesthetic uses in the corpus, we found that: (1) the synaesthetic metaphors of Mandarin gustatory adjectives exhibited directionality; (2) the directionality of Mandarin synaesthetic gustatory adjectives showed both commonality and specificity when compared with the attested directionality of gustatory adjectives in English, which calls for a closer re-examination of the claim of cross-lingual universality of synaesthetic tendencies; and (3) the distribution and directionality of Mandarin synaesthetic gustatory adjectives could not be predicted by a single hypothesis, such as the embodiment-driven approach or the biological association-driven approach. Thus, linguistic synaesthesia was constrained by both the embodiment principle and the biological association mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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