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Research On Synaesthesia In Chinese

Posted on:2008-04-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W H HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215999365Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Since it can break down the sense limitation of human, synaesthesia, as an art tool of expressing motion and opinions,is used broadly and popularly by people through using one kind of material impression of sense category to express another one and obtain novel and shocking expression effects.Basically, synaesthesia is a language phenomenon by using one kind of material impression of sense category to express another one. It is also a cognitive method which is limited by cognitive rules. It is the concept of sense projecting from the source domain to the target domain, the sense character from low sense projection to high sense, and from the strong touchable concept to the weak touchable concept. Its psychology is based on the abstract image schema.Synaesthesia is developed by the subjective and objective in common. It is built on the attribute interrelation of the objective materials which is formed the different sense communication by association reasoning. It is defined by the modern anatomy that each area of the human pallium is not isolated mutually, has many overlapped areas holding link, coordination and communication functions and triggers the transfer of sense by excitement differentiation and excitement generalizetion at the same time.In the practice,synaesthesia is used together with figures of comparison, hyperbole, hypallage,zeugma, and vision,but as an independent figue of speech, it is different from the other figues of speech.It is classified by the psychology mechanism and sense communication resulting from synaesthesia.Synaesthesia application describes feeling hard to write, makes the sense defamiliarization, gains the novel and shock expression effects and expresses motion and feeling better.
Keywords/Search Tags:synaesthesia, figues of speech, cognitive method, projection, use of rhetoric together
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