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Title: | Synaesthesia in Chinese : a corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin | Authors: | Zhao, Q Huang, CR Long, Y |
Issue Date: | 28-Aug-2018 | Source: | Linguistics, 28 Aug. 2018, v. 56, no. 5, p. 1167-1194 | Abstract: | 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. | Keywords: | Corpus-based Gustatory adjectives Mandarin Synaesthetic metaphors |
Publisher: | Mouton De Gruyter | Journal: | Linguistics | ISSN: | 0024-3949 | DOI: | 10.1515/ling-2018-0019 | Rights: | © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston The following publication Zhao, Q., Huang, C. R., & Long, Y. (2018). Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin. Linguistics, 56(5), 1167-1194 is available at https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0019 |
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