The Production of Metaphor by Native Speakers of English and Chinese

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dc.contributor.authorSockett, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-03T17:12:00Z
dc.date.available2009-03-03T17:12:00Z
dc.date.issued2008-04
dc.descriptionPoster presented at the 3rd Graduate Students' Research Conference, April 2008.en_US
dc.description.abstractA comparative study by Yu (1995) revealed various similarities and differences between English and Chinese metaphorical expressions of anger and happiness. In order to explore additional similarities and differences between English and Chinese metaphorical expressions, the present study had English-speaking and Chinese-speaking participants produce metaphorical expressions for the psychological concepts of anger and happiness, and for the non-psychological concepts of time and status. The central conceptual metaphors of anger, happiness, time, and status are shared between native speakers of English and Chinese, with qualitative differences in their expression. The similarities between the English and Chinese metaphors are due to similarities in the source domains used to represent the various target, or conceptual, domains. However, metaphorical expressions generated by Chinese participants tended to be more concrete and specific, whereas those provided by English participants were less concrete and more generic.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/1633
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Regina, Graduate Students' Associationen_US
dc.subjectConceptual metaphoren_US
dc.subjectMetaphor productionen_US
dc.subjectInter-linguistic comparisonen_US
dc.subjectQualitative researchen_US
dc.subjectChineseen_US
dc.titleThe Production of Metaphor by Native Speakers of English and Chineseen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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