A constructional approach to conceptual metaphor: A case study on COMPLETION IS UP in Mandarin
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angličtina
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A constructional approach to conceptual metaphor: A case study on COMPLETION IS UP in Mandarin
Original language description
The present study shows how a constructional approach (Croft 2001; Goldberg 1995; Langacker 2008) is useful in the investigation of motivation of conceptual metaphor, with COMPLETION IS UP in Mandarin as illustration. Although COMPLETION IS UP has been claimed to account for the 'completive' sense of up in English verb-particle constructions (Hampe 2000, 2002; Kovecses 2001), literature has not reached a definitive answer regarding the motivation of the metaphor. In view of this dangling issue, the present study investigates the positive pole of the vertical dimension in Chinese, linguistically elaborated as shang. The spatial particle has been reported to exhibit a completive sense (Lu, Submitted; Lu and Su 2012), the extension to which is thus obviously metaphorically motivated by COMPLETION IS UP. Using authentic corpus data, we classify the various usages of shang into semantic clusters, each with its own constructional characteristics.
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O - Miscellaneous
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AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0037" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0037: Employment of Best Young Scientists for International Cooperation Empowerment</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2014
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů