Manual Action Metaphors in Chinese

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3764
dc.contributor.author	Jing-Schmidt Zhuo
dc.contributor.author	Liu Sophia Xiaoyu
dc.contributor.author	Shi Heidi Hui
dc.title	Manual Action Metaphors in Chinese. A Usage-Based Constructionist Study
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This article examines Chinese manual motor metaphors involving manual object manipulation as the source domain. Specifically, we use corpus data to investigate two transitive constructions, [抓紧 zhuājǐn ‘grab tightly, clutch’ NP] and [把住 bǎzhù ‘grasp firmly’ NP], and a causative construction, [把 bǎ NP 捧 pěng COMPL] ‘lift np with deliberation’, where the referent of the np does not lend itself to manual manipulation in the literal sense and must be interpreted as metaphoric in the unity of semantic domains. Results from both quantitative and qualitative analyses show that the two transitive grasping actions are systematically used to abstract actions requiring a keen sense of urgency and/or importance, and that the causative action of lifting systematically conceptualises over-promotion of an undeserving entity. The findings point to the bodily origin of social cognition and the embodiment of conceptualisation.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-04-09
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/manual-action-metaphors-in-chinese/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/004
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	Embodiment
dc.subject	Embodiment
dc.subject	Manual Motor Metaphor
dc.subject	Manual Motor Metaphor
dc.subject	Object Manipulation
dc.subject	Object Manipulation

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Manual Action Metaphors in Chinese

A Usage-Based Constructionist Study

Heidi Hui Shi University of Oregon, USA

Sophia Xiaoyu Liu University of Oregon

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt University of Oregon, USA

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abstract

This article examines Chinese manual motor metaphors involving manual object manipulation as the source domain. Specifically, we use corpus data to investigate two transitive constructions, [抓紧 zhuājǐn ‘grab tightly, clutch’ NP] and [把住 bǎzhù ‘grasp firmly’ NP], and a causative construction, [把 bǎ NP 捧 pěng COMPL] ‘lift np with deliberation’, where the referent of the np does not lend itself to manual manipulation in the literal sense and must be interpreted as metaphoric in the unity of semantic domains. Results from both quantitative and qualitative analyses show that the two transitive grasping actions are systematically used to abstract actions requiring a keen sense of urgency and/or importance, and that the causative action of lifting systematically conceptualises over-promotion of an undeserving entity. The findings point to the bodily origin of social cognition and the embodiment of conceptualisation.

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April 9, 2020

Submitted

Feb. 17, 2020

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978-88-6969-407-3

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978-88-6969-406-6

Keywords: Chinese • Object Manipulation • Embodiment • Manual Motor Metaphor

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