Emotion and culture of eye-metaphors in Mandarin, Spanish and German

Bibliographic Data

ID21180811
AuthorsShelley Ching-Yu Hsieh (National Cheng Kung University), Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh 謝菁玉, Hui-Chuan Lu 盧慧娟 (National Cheng Kung University)
Year2014
Volume58
Issue0
Publication date2014-06-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCírculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1576-4737 • E-ISSN: 1576-4737
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/rev_clac.2014.v58.45472
OpenAlexW2009579979
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

This study attempts to give a cognitive semantic study of eye expressions (EEs) in Chinese, Spanish and German. The majority of the data are collected from corpora and dictionaries. The research questions are: (1) Is the BODY IS STATIC hypothesis proposed by Hsieh and Lu (2012) valid? (2) Do the verbs in EEs showing emotions suggest something? And, (3) what cultural aspects do the EEs in three languages involve? The results show that the analysis of semantic molecules and tenors of the EEs confirm the validity of BODY IS STATIC hypothesis. The verbs of the EEs play an important role in expressing emotion. The verbs that are inherited for other body parts, such as for hand, mouth, are extended to the sight domain and assist such emotion communication effectively. Bodily experiences work in linguistic as a whole as well. Finally, cultural aspects of social behavior and social communication in the specific social groups are shown. They are all revealed through a cross-cultural linguistic comparison

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · German · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Sight · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology