Words of Temperature in the Chinese Languages and the Lexical Typological Framework
Words of temperature have emerged as a prominent focal point in the realm of lexical semantics research.Domestic scholars have conducted research on the meaning of temperature words from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives by adhering to the established paradigms of traditional semantics,structural semantics,and cognitive semantics,and the inquiry involves the semantic evolution,metaphor,and metonymy phenomena of temperature words;while the lexical typology research abroad provides a cross-linguistic perspective for the relevant study and expands the research content to syntactic attributes.At present,research on temperature words within the framework of lexical typology rarely involves Chinese languages.By drawing lessons from research frameworks on the lexical typology of temperature words,the study,which has broad prospects,examines the conceptualization and lexicalization of temperature,the syntax-semantic interaction of temperature words,as well as the extended meaning of temperature words.