TY - JOUR
T1 - Salt Makes Language Salty Too: Taiwanese is a Verb-Framed Language
AU - 謝, 菁玉/Cheng-giok CHIĀ(Shelley Ching-yu Depner)
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.6621/JTV.202009_12(2).0003
DO - 10.6621/JTV.202009_12(2).0003
M3 - Article
SN - 2076-3611
VL - 12
SP - 52
EP - 80
JO - 台語研究 ＝ Journal of Taiwanese Vernacular
JF - 台語研究 ＝ Journal of Taiwanese Vernacular
IS - 2
ER -