TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion and culture of eye metaphors in Mandarin, Spanish and German
AU - Hsieh, Shelley Ching Yu
AU - Lu, Hui Chuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh and Hui-chuan Lu.
PY - 2014/5/31
Y1 - 2014/5/31
N2 - This study attempts to give a cognitive semantic study of eye expressions (EEs) in Chinese, Spanish and German. The majority of the data are collected from corpora and dictionaries. The research questions are: (1) Is the BODY IS STATIC hypothesis proposed by Hsieh and Lu (2012) valid? (2) Do the verbs in EEs showing emotions suggest something? And, (3) what cultural aspects do the EEs in three languages involve? The results show that the analysis of semantic molecules and tenors of the EEs confirm the validity of BODY IS STATIC hypothesis. The verbs of the EEs play an important role in expressing emotion. The verbs that are inherited for other body parts, such as for hand, mouth, are extended to the sight domain and assist such emotion communication effectively. Bodily experiences work in linguistic as a whole as well. Finally, cultural aspects of social behavior and social communication in the specific social groups are shown. They are all revealed through a cross-cultural linguistic comparison.
AB - This study attempts to give a cognitive semantic study of eye expressions (EEs) in Chinese, Spanish and German. The majority of the data are collected from corpora and dictionaries. The research questions are: (1) Is the BODY IS STATIC hypothesis proposed by Hsieh and Lu (2012) valid? (2) Do the verbs in EEs showing emotions suggest something? And, (3) what cultural aspects do the EEs in three languages involve? The results show that the analysis of semantic molecules and tenors of the EEs confirm the validity of BODY IS STATIC hypothesis. The verbs of the EEs play an important role in expressing emotion. The verbs that are inherited for other body parts, such as for hand, mouth, are extended to the sight domain and assist such emotion communication effectively. Bodily experiences work in linguistic as a whole as well. Finally, cultural aspects of social behavior and social communication in the specific social groups are shown. They are all revealed through a cross-cultural linguistic comparison.
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U2 - 10.5209/rev_CLAC.2014.v58.45472
DO - 10.5209/rev_CLAC.2014.v58.45472
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84989282456
SN - 1576-4737
VL - 58
SP - 110
EP - 133
JO - Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion
JF - Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion
ER -