Synesthesia in the process of phraseologismformation: a new approach

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Yearbook of Phraseology Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI:10.1515/PHRAS-2018-0006

I. Zykova

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Abstract

Abstract The paper aims to explore how the process of phraseologism-formation is linked with the process of perception as part and parcel of human cognitive activity. Specifically, the research focuses on the role synesthesia plays in the construction of phraseological meaning. We proceed from the claim that the perceptual experience a human gains through multiple sensory channels while cognizing the world is preserved in the language semantics. Therefore, one of the main assumptions of the research is that synesthesia as a result of crossintegration of various perceptual sensations and their (sub)modalities influences the formation of phraseologisms and can be traced in their semantics. To test this assumption, a representative corpus of English and Russian phraseological units (more than 3,000) is analyzed. In the course of the analysis different types of synesthetic transfers that underlie the phraseological meanings in question are established. Special attention is paid to the way in which synesthesia is involved in the construction of the deep stratum of phraseological semantics that consists of the conceptual foundation (i.e., macro-metaphorical conceptual model) and phraseological image. Overall, the study offers further evidence that phraseological meaning is derived from the perceptual experience and from various synesthetic transfers in particular.

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短语形成过程中的通感：一种新的方法

摘要本文旨在探讨措辞学的形成过程如何与作为人类认知活动一部分的感知过程联系起来。具体而言，研究的重点是联觉在短语意义建构中的作用。我们从这样一个观点出发，即人类在认知世界时通过多种感官渠道获得的感知体验保留在语言语义中。因此，该研究的主要假设之一是，作为各种感知及其（子）模式交叉整合的结果的联觉影响了措辞学的形成，并可以追溯到其语义中。为了验证这一假设，分析了一个具有代表性的英语和俄语短语单位语料库（3000多个）。在分析过程中，建立了不同类型的联觉转移，这些联觉转移是所讨论的短语意义的基础。特别关注联觉参与短语语义深层构建的方式，该深层由概念基础（即宏观隐喻概念模型）和短语意象组成。总的来说，这项研究提供了进一步的证据，证明短语的意义来源于感知体验，尤其是各种联觉转移。

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Yearbook of Phraseology LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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0.80

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： The Yearbook of Phraseology is a fully international, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to research in phraseology, a linguistic subfield concerned with the study of word combinations of varying extent and type, and different degrees of fixedness. Word combinations are ubiquitous in language and constitute a significant resource for communication. Their study is of interest to many other subdisciplines of linguistics and even to other disciplines, throwing light on the make-up of constructions, their processing and learning, the make-up and modes of creation of complex building blocks of language, the methodology and use of corpora and statistical methods, as well as on the way in which language functions.