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Publication details [#64677]

Zhao, Qingqing, Chu-Ren Huang and Yunfei Long. 2018. Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin. Linguistics 56 (5) : 1167–1194.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjective | corpus analysis | crosslinguistic perspective | linguistics | metaphor

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This inquiry used a corpus-based approach to explore the synaesthetic metaphors of gustatory adjectives in Mandarin. It was found that linguistic synaesthesia was constrained by both the embodiment principle and the biological association mechanism.