Abstract
Salt is a typical condiment and an essential nutrient for the human body. Salt and salty related utterances, e.g., kè-kiâm-chúi 過鹹水 'pass-salty-water = go abroad', also play a role in language. This study collects expressions that employ salt and salty from Taiwanese corpora and dictionaries. Research questions ask: (1) What cultural attributes does salty express?; (2) What social communication scripts does salty constitute in the metaphorical domain?; and, (3) What language type does Taiwanese belong to? Script category (Nguyen and Murphy 2003) and the typology of verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages (Talmy 2000) are adopted as the theoretical background. The results show social communicative functions of salt / salty and that Taiwanese is a verb-framed language.
| Translated title of the contribution | 鹽mā ē hō語言變鹹：Lán-lâng-ōe是屬於動詞框架語言 |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 52-80 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | 台語研究 ＝ Journal of Taiwanese Vernacular |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |