Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon

Lievers, Francesca Strik; Felice, Irene De

doi:10.1075/celcr.19.05str

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“…However, there is evidence suggesting that it did evolve towards a more negatively-oriented lexicon. In Lievers and De Felice (2019), the authors test the hypothesis of the directionality of sensory adjectives in Latin and Italian from a diachronic perspective. This study provides evidence for the fact that the primary meanings of sensory adjectives and the hierarchy of synaesthetic metaphors did not undergo variations over time.…”

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Scent and Sensibility: Perception Shifts in the Olfactory Domain

Paccosi,

Menini,

Leonardelli

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

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In this work, we investigate olfactory perception shifts, analysing how the description of the smells emitted by specific sources has changed over time. We first create a benchmark of selected smell sources, relying upon existing historical studies related to olfaction. We also collect an English text corpus by retrieving large collections of documents from freely available resources, spanning from 1500 to 2000 and covering different domains. We label such corpus using a system for olfactory information extraction inspired by frame semantics, where the semantic roles around the smell sources in the benchmark are marked. We then analyse how the roles describing Qualities of smell sources change over time and how they can contribute to characterise perception shifts, also in comparison with more standard statistical approaches.

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Scent and Sensibility: Perception Shifts in the Olfactory Domain

Paccosi,

Menini,

Leonardelli

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

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“…In terms of the mechanisms underlying synaesthetic transfers, Zhao et al (2018) and Winter (2019) have suggested that linguistic synaesthesia is grounded in multiple mechanisms. In addition, Strik Lievers et al (2013) andHuang (2016) focus on identifying linguistic synaesthetic expressions in natural languages. However, their studies are conducted by semiautomatic methods with lots of manual strategies.…”

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A Unified Framework for Synaesthesia Analysis

Sheng,

Wang,

Zhao

et al. 2023

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

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Synaesthesia refers to the description of perceptions in one sensory modality through concepts from other modalities. It involves not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also a cognitive phenomenon structuring human thought and action, which makes understanding it challenging. As a means of cognition, synaesthesia is rendered by more than sensory modalities, cue and stimulus can also play an important role in expressing and understanding it. In addition, understanding synaesthesia involves many cognitive efforts, such as identifying the semantic relationship between sensory words and modalities. Therefore, we propose a unified framework focusing on annotating all kinds of synaesthetic elements and fully exploring the relationship among them. In particular, we introduce a new annotation scheme, including sensory modalities as well as their cues and stimuli, which facilitate understanding synaesthetic information collectively. We further design a structure generation model to capture the relations among synaesthetic elements and generate them jointly. Through extensive experiments, the importance of the proposed dataset can be verified by the statistics and progressive performances. In addition, our proposed model yields state-of-theart results, demonstrating its effectiveness.

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“…These studies mainly focus on three aspects of perception verbs. First, intra-field and trans-field meaning extensions from universal and cultural perspectives (see e.g., Evans & Wilkins 2000;Gisborne 2010;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2008van Putten 2020;Sweetser 1990;Viberg 1983Viberg , 2015Viberg , 2019; second, their relation to evidentiality and epistemic modality (Aijmer 2009;Whitt 2011;Grund 2016); and third, the semantic relationship between physical experiences, emotions, and sensory modalities (Firestone 2016;Strik-Lievers & de Felice 2019). Among the sensory modalities, vision merits the highest amount of interest, since vision is related to several aspects of human perception and cognition, and cross-linguistic findings show that visual perception verbs display the highest number of meaning extensions in the languages of the world.…”

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Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish

Erk Emeksiz,

Rentzsch

2024

JHL

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This study aims at describing the verbs of the visual sensory domain in Old Anatolian Turkish (oat), including basic and compound verb forms. We shall specifically focus on intra-field and trans-field meaning extensions of visual perception verbs such as baḳ-, naẓar et-, gör-, and görin-/gözük-. Our findings are based on a corpus consisting of 11 texts both in prose and poetry from the 13th to 15th centuries. There are mainly two types of verbs that conceptualise mental and emotive states through visual perception: one pertains to idiomatic expressions with göz ‘eye’, such as göz-(ün) aç- (eye-poss.acc open), göz-den düş- (eye-abl fall), and göz dut- (eye hold). The second form includes basic verbs including baḳ- (to look at), gör- (to see), naẓar et- (to look at) and gör-in-/göz-ük- (to appear). We shall show that visual perception constitutes a rich source for expressing emotive states, and the use of vision verbs for the expression of emotions is as productive as it is for mental states. Similar to Sweetser’s body is mind metaphor, we suggest that vision is emotion. The domain of visual perception in oat texts displays a strong connection to intellection; however, there is no evidence in our data indicating that the verbs gör- and baḳ- have meaning extension to ‘to know’. The phenomenon-based verbs görin- and gözük- have mainly two meaning extensions: one is related to physical existence, as in ‘occur’ and ‘appear’ in English. When these verbs co-occur with nouns and adjectives, they reflect the speakers’ judgements and beliefs by means of a metaphor.

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Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Scent and Sensibility: Perception Shifts in the Olfactory Domain

Scent and Sensibility: Perception Shifts in the Olfactory Domain

A Unified Framework for Synaesthesia Analysis

Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish

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