TITLE:
Construction of Sensory Transfer Model of Gustatory and Olfactory-Synaesthetic Metaphor (GO-STM) and English-Chinese Comparative Study
AUTHORS:
Hong Duan, Li Gao
KEYWORDS:
Synaesthesia, Gustatory and Olfactory Word, Sensory Transfer Model (STM), Gustatory and Olfactory Sensory Transfer Model (GO-STM)
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.4 No.2,
May
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: This paper aims to
explore the synaesthetic truth of taste and smell in particular. Based on the
corpus of gustatory and olfactory-synaesthetic cases, classification and
statistical tasks are undertaken, in which four main characters are
discovered: 1) the particular sorts of gustatory and olfactory-synaesthetic
metaphors; 2) the bi-directional transfer in specific pairs; 3) the
hierarchical distribution among sensory modes; 4) the transfer frequencies of
sensory transfer tendencies. Thus, GO-STM of both English and Chinese is
constructed. What’s more, the comparison of English and Chinese has been
conducted for the first time. According to the statistic results, the
percentage of English-Chinese gustatory and olfactory-synaesthetic dead
metaphors is 48.1% and 48.3% respectively, and that’s why we always ignore
them. Furthermore, the embodiment basis of synaesthetic metaphors is analyzed
in light of recent neurological research and Cognitive Linguistics.