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Spatiality and Its Semantic Consequence of the Quantitative Expression “一CCN” in Mandarin Chinese Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Metaphorical Analysis of Five Senses and Emotions in Mandarin Chinese

Authors : Jie Zhou, Qi Su, Pengyuan Liu

Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Emotions can be expressed by the five major external senses of human beings (i.e. vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste) via metaphors. Previous studies have mainly explored the relation between the five senses and emotions from the perspectives of physiology and cognition, and research on the five senses focuses on their semantic meanings. This paper attempts to investigate their relation based on corpus linguistics, centering on sensory verbs and emotional words. It is found that in Mandarin Chinese, five basic emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise) can be expressed via olfactory, tactile, visual, and auditory modalities while among these five basic emotions, surprise cannot be expressed through taste.

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Metadata
Title
A Metaphorical Analysis of Five Senses and Emotions in Mandarin Chinese
Authors
Jie Zhou
Qi Su
Pengyuan Liu
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Chinese Lexical Semantics

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38188-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38189-9

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_62

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