A Contrastive Analysis of Synaesthesia Between Sensorial Adjectives in English and Chinese

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.322How to use a DOI?

Keywords

synaesthesia, sensorial adjectives, transfer, culture

Abstract

Synaesthesia is both a physiological and psychological phenomenon and a language and cultural phenomenon. Synaesthesia semantic phenomenon abounds in both Chinese and English vocabulary. This paper aims at elaborating the accidental similarities, distinguished differences and the lacking of counterparts phenomenon in synaesthesia vocabulary in Chinese and English. This is of great significance because it can shed some light on the translation of sensorial adjectives and facilitate cultural exchanges.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ying Zhou
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - A Contrastive Analysis of Synaesthesia Between Sensorial Adjectives in English and Chinese
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 151
EP  - 153
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.322
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.322
ID  - Zhou2020
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