An Examination on "one-directional hypothesis" of a Synesthesia metaphor

联觉隐喻的“单向假设”考察

基本信息

批准号：
19720096
负责人：
MUTO Ayaka
金额：
$ 1.82万
依托单位：
University of the Ryukyus
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2007 至 2010
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The "one direction" tendency, in terms of synesthesia metaphors, is the consistent diversion of a word"s basic meaning to emphasize a sensation from another sense category. The "one direction" tendency in synesthesia metaphors is assumed to be a linguistic universal, and is referred to as the "One Direction Hypothesis."To address these concerns, this research focused on the following three points1) First, meaning diversion in 15 languages from "sight" and "touch" to other senses was investigated as a pilot survey. As a result of this investigation, the numbers of examples diverted from "touch" were found to be more than the number of "sight" expressions in all the languages surveyed. However, diversion examples from "sight" were also found in all the languages without exception. Therefore, it can be said that the results of this investigation were as follows. Although the One Direction Hypothesis is not absolute, the tendency of meaning diversion in all 15 languages was found to support this hypothesis.2)Next, the meaning diversion from "sight" "hearing" "touch" "taste" and "smell" to another senses was investigated among 60 native speakers in English and French. The results of the previous pilot survey were confirmed by this investigation. Thus, it became clear that the tendency of the direction of the meaning diversion generally supported the "one-way hypothesis" across all sense categories. In addition, the data contained many examples counter to the One Direction Hypothesis. However, among the exceptions found, it is noteworthy that only "smell→taste" counter-examples frequently occur in both English and French.

就联觉隐喻而言，“单向”倾向是词的基本含义的一致转移，以强调来自另一种感觉类别的感觉。联觉隐喻中的“单向”倾向被假定为语言普遍性，并被称为“单向假说”。为了解决这些问题，本研究重点关注以下三点1）首先，对15种语言中从“视觉”和“触觉”到其他感官的意义转移进行了调查：一项试点调查的结果是，在所有接受调查的语言中，从“触摸”转移的例子数量多于“视觉”表达的数量。因此，可以说，本次调查的结果虽然不是绝对的，但在所有 15 种语言中都发现了意义转移的趋势。支持这个假设。2）接下来，对 60 名以英语和法语为母语的人进行了从“视觉”、“听觉”、“触觉”、“味觉”和“嗅觉”到其他感官的意义转移的调查，本次调查证实了之前的试点调查结果。很明显，意义转移的方向趋势普遍支持所有意义类别的“单向假设”。此外，数据中包含许多与单向假设相反的例子。值得注意的是只有“嗅觉→味觉”的反例在英语和法语中都经常出现。