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Title: | Directionality of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin : a corpus-based study | Authors: | Zhao, Q Huang, CR Ahrens, K |
Issue Date: | Dec-2019 | Source: | Lingua, Dec. 2019, v. 232, 102744 | Abstract: | This paper examines the mapping directionality tendencies of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin using a corpus-based approach. Based on this set of less-studied data, we find that Mandarin synesthesia does not share the same directionality tendencies with linguistic synesthesia in Indo-European languages, which challenges the assumed cross-linguistic universality of these transfer patterns. Based on the corpus data, we demonstrate that there are three types of directional tendencies for Mandarin synesthesia: unidirectional, biased-directional, and bidirectional. Unidirectional synesthesia is rule-based, while synesthesia that is biased in one direction is frequency-based. In contrast, bidirectional synesthesia shows no directional preference. Thus, the directionality of linguistic synesthesia cannot be interpreted as rule-based or frequency-based exclusively. In addition, this study finds that linguistic synesthesia shows language-specific variations for directionality tendencies grounded in both embodiment and neural mechanisms, which challenges the theory that linguistic synesthesia is a bio-neurologically based linguistic realization. Lastly, the fact that linguistic synesthesia involves both rule-based and frequency-based transfer directionalities suggests that the relationship between linguistic synesthesia and metaphor merits further exploration. | Keywords: | Linguistic synesthesia Mandarin Chinese Sensory lexicon Transfer directionality Variations |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Lingua | ISSN: | 0024-3841 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102744 | Rights: | © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The following publication Zhao, Q., Huang, C. R., & Ahrens, K. (2019). Directionality of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin: A corpus-based study. Lingua, 232, 102744 is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102744 |
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