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Linguistic Synesthesia in Korean: Universality and Variation.
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SAGE Open . Jul-Sep2022, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p1-13. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- It has long been argued that linguistic synesthesia has a universal linear-hierarchical directionality tendency, which is mostly grounded in Indo-European language data. This study explores linguistic synesthesia in Korean to verify the cross-linguistic generalizability of the universality hypothesis of linguistic synesthesia. Based on synesthetic data from the Sejong Corpus and gustatory adjectives, this study found that Korean synesthesia shows language-bound variations with three different types of mappings (i.e., unidirectional, reciprocal, and biased), which are frequency- and rule-based. This finding challenges the cross-linguistic universality of the mapping directionality of linguistic synesthesia. As for the mapping mechanism of linguistic synesthesia, this study supports the embodiment theory in terms of language-specific variation. Additionally, it has been proposed that linguistic synesthesia is a special type of metaphor based on both rules and frequency. Finally, this study suggests that linguistic synesthesia displays universal directionality at a general level and language-bound variation at a specific level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *LINGUISTICS
*DATA analysis
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*LANGUAGE & languages
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21582440
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- SAGE Open
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159438631
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221117804