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Embodied Conceptualization or Neural Realization

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 10)

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9315-1

ISBN: 978-981-32-9314-4

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Sep 1, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction to Synaesthesia

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 1 –17

[Synaesthesia, with an alternative spelling as synesthesia, has the etymological roots syn ‘together’ and aisthesia ‘perception’ in Greek (Popova in From perception to meaning: image schema in cognitive linguistics (cognitive linguistics research 29). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp 395–420 2005;...
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Chapter 2Methodology: A Corpus-Driven Approach

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 19 –34

[The distinction between corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches in Corpus Linguistics has been questioned, as they show few differences in methodology.]
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Chapter 3Mandarin Tactile Adjectives

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 35 –68

[Shen (1997) and Popova (2005) have both suggested that touch is the most embodied sensory modality among human senses based on its perceptual nature.]
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Chapter 4Mandarin Gustatory Adjectives

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 69 –80

[This chapter is extension of Zhao et al. (Linguistics 56(5):1167–1194, 2018b) to explore the finer-grained tendencies and mechanisms of synaesthetic usages of Mandarin gustatory adjectives.]
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Chapter 5Mandarin Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Adjectives

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 81 –104

[The synaesthetic data from the Sinica corpus shows that vision, hearing, and smell exhibit much lower degrees of synaesthetic participation than touch and taste in Mandarin (see Chap. 2). In addition, there are only four auditory adjectives and two olfactory adjectives identified with...
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Chapter 6Mandarin Compound Adjectives Combining Different Modalities

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 105 –114

[Zhao and Huang (2018) demonstrated that compound Mandarin sensory adjectives comprised of two concepts originally for different senses also followed the directionality tendencies of linguistic synaesthesia.]
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Chapter 7From Linguistic Synaesthesia to Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 115 –128

[This chapter aims to establish correlations between synaesthetic tendencies in Mandarin and theoretical accounts of linguistic synaesthesia. It will also clarify the nature of linguistic synaesthesia based on the synaesthetic tendencies of Mandarin sensory adjectives. Furthermore, a...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Zhao, Qingqing

Pages: 129 –130

[This book has examined the tendencies of Mandarin synaesthesia and the theoretical implications of linguistic synaesthesia from a corpus-driven approach.]

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