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ItemNo Preview AvailableMetaphorical Mappings of the ‘Eye’ in Chinese(Brill, 2022)Previous studies of body-part terms reveal that the eye as our organ of vision is a rich source domain for conceptualizing various aspects of the human mind. This chapter examines the semantic extensions of the body-part terms for ‘eyes’ and their metaphorical mappings in Chinese within the cognitive semantic framework. Linguistic evidence shows that ‘eyes’ are extensively employed in Chinese to conceptualize various human experiences which can be categorized roughly into four domains, i.e. knowledge/intellect, emotion and attitude, physical and social relationship, as well as shape and time. These metaphorical mappings are grounded on our bodily experience manifested through our interactive embodiment with the eyes. This study illustrates that while a large part of metaphorical mappings proceeds from the more concrete concepts to the more abstract concepts, there are cases where mappings overlap between concrete and abstract concepts. These findings seem to provide support for a more recent view of metaphorical mappings of the mental-as-the physical proposed by Sweetser.
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ItemIntroduction: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar(World Book Trading Company, 2016)
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ItemSino-Tai Words for 'to Eat'( 2010)
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ItemThe Buyang Language of South China: Grammatical Notes, Glossary, Texts and Translations(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)