Bodo Winter, Sensory linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor

Rong, Wang; Sun, Kun

doi:10.1515/flin-2020-2036

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“…Thus, the above question is definitely related to the nature of linguistic synesthesia-whether linguistic synesthesia is an authentic metaphor. Previous studies largely construe linguistic synesthesia as neurophysiological (Marks, 1996;Rakova, 2003;Ronga et al, 2012), metaphorical (Shen, 1997;Strik Lievers, 2015Yu, 2003), or literal (Winter, 2019). This study supports the metaphor hypothesis for linguistic synesthesia, because the results reported in this study clearly show variations in the metaphorical mapping process between sensory domain sources and targets.…”

Section: Universality and Variation In Linguistic Synesthesiasupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Furthermore, the nature of linguistic synesthesia-whether it is an authentic metaphor-is discussed based on the results of this study. Previous studies on linguistic synesthesia are largely grounded in Indo-European languages, including English, Hungarian, Italian, and French (e.g., Erzsébet, 1974;Strik Lievers, 2015;Ullmann, 1957;Winter, 2019;Wise, 1997). However, we also find studies on linguistic synesthesia in several other languages such as Hebrew (e.g., Shen, 1997;Shen & Cohen, 1998) and Mandarin (e.g., Xiong & Huang, 2016;Zhao et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 49%

“…Meanwhile, her use of the large-scale non-poetic corpora for the research on linguistic synesthesia was a trial to overcome the possible uncertainty and variability from traditionally used poetic data as well as retrieving many more synesthetic samples (Strik Lievers, 2015). With the recent rapid growth of corpus and computational language sciences, the investigation of conventionalized synesthesia data (including perception verb data highly related to linguistic synesthesia) from large-scale corpora has been noted (Krishna, 2022;Winter, 2019;Zhao, 2018;Zhao et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is because the extracted candidate output from the corpus needs to be manually inspected sentence by sentence to confirm the final "true" synesthesia. Special attention should be paid to the classification of lexical items into each sense modality in that a perceptionrelated lexeme could be categorized into multiple sensory domains depending on the context (for further understanding of multisensory adjectives, refer to Lynott and Connell (2009) and Winter, 2019). Furthermore, it is not always easy to determine the sensory domains of the target words related to perception.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Linguistic Synesthesia in Korean: Universality and Variation

2022

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It has long been argued that linguistic synesthesia has a universal linear-hierarchical directionality tendency, which is mostly grounded in Indo-European language data. This study explores linguistic synesthesia in Korean to verify the cross-linguistic generalizability of the universality hypothesis of linguistic synesthesia. Based on synesthetic data from the Sejong Corpus and gustatory adjectives, this study found that Korean synesthesia shows language-bound variations with three different types of mappings (i.e., unidirectional, reciprocal, and biased), which are frequency- and rule-based. This finding challenges the cross-linguistic universality of the mapping directionality of linguistic synesthesia. As for the mapping mechanism of linguistic synesthesia, this study supports the embodiment theory in terms of language-specific variation. Additionally, it has been proposed that linguistic synesthesia is a special type of metaphor based on both rules and frequency. Finally, this study suggests that linguistic synesthesia displays universal directionality at a general level and language-bound variation at a specific level.

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Linguistic Synesthesia in Korean: Universality and Variation

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“…An increasing number of researchers have studied metaphor from different perspectives in fields like linguistics [47,41,37,52], psychology [35,27,33,20], neuroscience [1,22,15,17], management [54,39,13,2], and computer science [48,36,55,19]. Since metaphor research has been developing dramatically, it is necessary to review the current situation, the development and trends of metaphor research, as well as studying how metaphor research has evolved through time.…”

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Metaphor research in the 21st century: A bibliographic analysis

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Peng

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COMSIS J

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Metaphor is widely used in human communication. The cohort of scholars studying metaphor in various fields is continuously growing, but very few work has been done in bibliographical analysis of metaphor research. This paper examines the advancements in metaphor research from 2000 to 2017. Using data retrieved from Microsoft Academic Graph and Web of Science, this paper makes a macro analysis of metaphor research, and expounds the underlying patterns of its development. Taking into consideration sub-fields of metaphor research, the internal analysis of metaphor research is carried out from a micro perspective to reveal the evolution of research topics and the inherent relationships among them. This paper provides novel insights into the current state of the art of metaphor research as well as future trends in this field, which may spark new research interests in metaphor from both linguistic and interdisciplinary perspectives.

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Sensory modality profiles of antonyms

2023

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Adjectives that are used to describe sensory experiences are often used to express more than one modality. The adjective sweet, for instance, may primarily be associated with taste (i.e., taste is the dominant modality of sweet), but it can also be used for smell, sound or sight, and possibly even for touch. It has also been shown that some sensory modalities combine more easily than others. Many adjectives that are used to describe taste, for instance, can also be used for smell, but, less likely, for sound. These associations between sensory modalities as they are expressed in language are the topic of this study. We looked at the distribution of the combinations of dominant modalities in pairs of antonymic sensory adjectives (e.g., sweet–sour), and how the dominant modality of the adjectives in these pairs differed from that of the adjectives in isolation. In our dataset, there was a sizeable number of pairs consisting of adjectives with differing dominant modalities. Within those pairs, we observed that adjectives with the dominant modality sight can also be used for touch and vice versa. Similarly, adjectives with the dominant modality of smell can also be used for taste and vice versa. Finally, adjectives with the dominant modalities sight and touch can both also be used for hearing and for taste, but not the other way around. These results contribute to our understanding of how language is used to describe sensory experiences, and, with that, how sensory experiences may be shaped by the words that we use to describe them.

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Bodo Winter, Sensory linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

Linguistic Synesthesia in Korean: Universality and Variation

Linguistic Synesthesia in Korean: Universality and Variation

Metaphor research in the 21st century: A bibliographic analysis

Sensory modality profiles of antonyms

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