A study on the mapping model of Modern Chinese lexical synaesthesia metaphor
Synaesthesia metaphor has always been a focus of research at home and a-broad,but previous studies have rarely discussed it at the morpheme level and have sel-dom incorporated psychological feelings into the synaesthetic mapping model.This paper argues for the necessity of the incorporation of this dimension into the mapping model,and based on this,summarizes 192 adjectival synaesthetic compound words from the Mod-ern Chinese Dictionary(7th edition).In the meantime,the paper analyzes 293 cases of synaesthetic mapping,resulting in the identification of 29 mapping patterns.It is found that the synaesthesia metaphor system of modern Chinese lexicon can be divided into three levels,and that the synaesthetic mapping system is directional though there are different mapping rules among the three levels.In light of this,the paper constructs a model at the morpheme level,distinguishing between linguistic synaesthesia and neural synaesthesia,and based on this model derives a hierarchy of sensory accessibility in Chinese.The differ-ent orders of sensory accessibility in different languages not only further demonstrate the individuality of languages but also provide new ideas and methods for the study of seman-tic evolution in lexicology and Chinese exegetics.
万方数据
维普
