Qingqing Zhao

Embodied Conceptualization or Neural Realization

A Corpus-Driven Study of Mandarin Synaesthetic Adjectives

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This book focuses on linguistic synaesthesia in a hitherto less-studied language - Mandarin Chinese - and adopts a corpus-driven approach to support the analysis and argumentation. The study identifies directional tendencies and underlying mechanisms for Mandarin synaesthetic adjectives. By doing so, it not only provides an added layer of understanding for theories of linguistic synaesthesia, but also offers evidence to help refine previous theories, such as Embodiment Theory and Conceptual Metaphor Theory. In brief, the book makes a significant contribution to the development of Cognitive Linguistics. The intended readership includes, but is… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-3293-15-1
EAN: 9789813293151
Produktnummer: 32502990
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 145 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 6'174 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Abbildungen: 86 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Reihenbandnummer: 10

Über den Autor

Dr Qingqing Zhao received her PhD from the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main research interests are lexical semantics and cognitive linguistics, topics on which she has published more than ten papers in high-impact SCI/SSCI journals and prestigious CSSCI journals, including Linguistics, PLoS ONE, Zhongguoyuwen, and so on.