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A Comparative Study on Semantic Extension of Taste Words in English and Chinese--From Cognitive and Cultural Perspectives

作　者: 李杨
导　师: 朱文俊
学　校: 北京语言大学
专　业: 外国语言学与应用语言学
关键词: Metaphor Semantics Target Domain Food Culture Taste Words
分类号: H319
类　型: 硕士论文
年　份: 2004年
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Our sensory organs are the basic cognitive apparatus that as a whole makes it possible for us to interact with the outside word. Among the five physical senses we have, taste is of unique significance to us.The analysis in this paper adopts a cognitive-semantic approach combined with a diachronic study of the semantic change of the words "sweet", "sour", "bitter", "salty" and "spicy" in English and Chinese in an attempt to work out a route of the semantic extension of major taste words in these two languages against an overall cognitive and cultural background.

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Introduction  6-9
Chapter Ⅰ Physiological Bads for Cognitive Studies on Taste Words  9-12
  1.1 Types of Tastes  9
  1.2 Structure of Gustatory Organ  9-11
  1.3 How the Sense of Taste Works  11-12
Chapter Ⅱ The Importance of Taste  12-16
  2.1 Significance of Perceptual Experience  12-13
  2.2 The Current Status of Taste Among the Five Senses  13-15
  2.3 Status of Taste Redefined  15-16
Chapter Ⅲ An Overview of Cognitive Studies  16-19
  3.1 Cognitive Science  16-17
  3.2 Cognitive semantics  17-19
Chapter Ⅳ Conceptual Metaphors  19-21
  4.1 Theoretical Overview  19-20
  4.2 Embodied Metaphor  20-21
Chapter Ⅴ Metaphorical Mappings in the Sense of Taste  21-38
  5.1 Food Metaphors  21-22
  5.2 Metaphorical mechanism underlying semantic changes of the words 'sweet','sour' and 'bitter' in English and Chinese  22-33
    5.2.1 TASTE→SMELL  23-25
    5.2.2 TASTE→VISION, HEARING  25-27
    5.2.3 TASTE→EMOTIONAL STATES  27-29
    5.2.4 TASTE→MENTAL STATES  29-30
    5.2.5 TASTE→PROPERTY OF OBJECTS/EVENTS  30
    5.2.6 TASTE→PERSONALITY  30-32
    5.2.7 TASTE→ABSTRACT DOMAINS  32-33
  5.3 A Brief Analysis of 'Salty' and 'Spicy'  33-36
    5.3.1 'Salty'  33-35
    5.3.2 'Spicy'  35-36
  5.4 Summary-The Route of Semantic Extension of Taste Words in English and Chinese  36-38
Chapter Ⅵ. Cultural Reflections on Semantic Extension of Taste Words  38-47
  6.1 British and Chinese Food Cultures  38-40
  6.2 A Mapping of SOUR onto Body Taste in Chinese  40-41
  6.3 'Sour' vs.'Bitter' as opposed to 'Sweet'  41-42
  6.4 Distinct Views about SPICY  42-47
Works Cited  47-49
Appendix: Selected expressions with 'sour' and 'bitter' in Chinese  49-50

A Comparative Study on Semantic Extension of Taste Words in English and Chinese--From Cognitive and Cultural Perspectives

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