Distributions of Taiwan Mandarin Synesthetic Transfer from Sensory Words to Emotion Words: A Corpus-Based Study
Date Issued
2023-10-28
Author(s)
Jou-An Chi
紀柔安
Abstract
The present study aims to prove the correlation between emotional words and linguistic synesthesia and investigate the distributions of Taiwan Mandarin synesthetic transfer from 5 sensory words to emotion-trigger words. The gustatory word “sweet” in English and Mandarin has been discussed as an emotional word as well (Wu & Lai, 2011), but the emotion-trigger word has still rarely been studied in linguistic synesthesia. The purpose of the present study is the continuation of extending the study of emotion-linguistic synesthesia. In addition to examining the frequency of the sensory words of 5 sensory modalities in emotion-linguistic synesthesia, meanwhile, this study further will discuss the distribution of emotions that are mainly triggered by emotional synesthesia words in each sensory domain.
The study is corpus-based, and the usage of methodology is revised from the linguistic synesthesia identification procedure (LSIP) of Zhao (2018), which was previously employed in Mandarin studies by Zhao et al. (2019) to discuss the directionality of linguistic synesthesia. Besides the adoption of the LSIP, the sensory words list of the 5 sensory modalities from LSIP was used in this study. The text with the completed context where the emotional words located in this study were drawn from the sentiment texts of Chinese EmoBank (Lee et al., 2022). A contextual analysis was conducted to determine whether the sensory words in the compiled list triggered the specific emotion. Instances, where the sensory words trigger emotion successfully, were marked as instances of emotion-linguistic synesthesia and categorized into the 5 sensory domains to observe the distribution of this synesthesia. The findings will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between sensory modality and emotion-trigger in linguistic synesthesia of Taiwan Mandarin.
Event(s)
The 24th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL 2023)
第 24 屆全國語言學論文研討會 (NCL 2023)
Subjects
linguistic synesthesia
emotional trigger
sensory modality
metaphor
synaesthetic transfer
corpus
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會議地點：國立臺灣大學霖澤館
Type
conference paper not in proceedings
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