A study on metaphors in using tactile adjectives to convert sensation in Vietnamese and Chinese

  • Đặng Dung

Abstract

    Synaesthesia prevails in literature and our daily life. The prior is a special feature of sensory words and expressions. Because tactile sense is the most basic one in five senses, according to the mapping principle, it can mapp over other senses. This study has not only compiled some studies of metaphors of converting sensation in language recognition but also shovm the observation, analysis and comparison using tactile adjective to convert sensation in Vietnamese and Chinese. 

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Published
2017-09-26
Section
ARTICLES