What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?

What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?

This study focuses on the body-part hand in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish with the majority of the data taken from Chinese Mandarin Online Dictionary and Web edition of Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. The Spanish data were obtained from Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual...

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Autor principal: CHING-YU HSIEH,SHELLEY
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte 2013
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Body part
hand
cognitive semantics
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
underlying conceits
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-488320130001000022014-09-09What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?CHING-YU HSIEH,SHELLEY Body part hand cognitive semantics Spanish Mandarin Chinese underlying conceits This study focuses on the body-part hand in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish with the majority of the data taken from Chinese Mandarin Online Dictionary and Web edition of Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. The Spanish data were obtained from Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual de la Real Academia Española and Lanbridge Diccionario Manual Español-Chino. The research questions are: (1) What meanings do the hand expressions in both languages convey? (2) What are the meanings based on? (3) Is there a cognitive model behind them? The answer of the third question is based on that of the first two. We found that (a) +people, +action, and +power are the most frequently occurring semantic molecules for hand expressions, (b) the favorite underlying conceits that generate hand expressions are ‘behavior’ and ‘function’, (c) BODY IS FUNCTION proves true, and (d) we propose that BODY IS STATIC is more fundamental based on the observation in hand expressions.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y ArteRLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada v.51 n.1 20132013-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48832013000100002en10.4067/S0718-48832013000100002
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topic Body part
hand
cognitive semantics
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
underlying conceits
spellingShingle Body part
hand
cognitive semantics
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
underlying conceits
CHING-YU HSIEH,SHELLEY
What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
description This study focuses on the body-part hand in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish with the majority of the data taken from Chinese Mandarin Online Dictionary and Web edition of Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. The Spanish data were obtained from Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual de la Real Academia Española and Lanbridge Diccionario Manual Español-Chino. The research questions are: (1) What meanings do the hand expressions in both languages convey? (2) What are the meanings based on? (3) Is there a cognitive model behind them? The answer of the third question is based on that of the first two. We found that (a) +people, +action, and +power are the most frequently occurring semantic molecules for hand expressions, (b) the favorite underlying conceits that generate hand expressions are ‘behavior’ and ‘function’, (c) BODY IS FUNCTION proves true, and (d) we propose that BODY IS STATIC is more fundamental based on the observation in hand expressions.
author CHING-YU HSIEH,SHELLEY
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title What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
title_short What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
title_full What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
title_fullStr What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
title_full_unstemmed What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish?
title_sort what does hand express in chinese and spanish?
publisher Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte
publishDate 2013
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