Cultural Metaphor and Cultural Metonymy in Taiwanese Mandarin

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3800-1_39" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-981-99-3800-1_39</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cultural Metaphor and Cultural Metonymy in Taiwanese Mandarin

Original language description

This chapter analyzes the four-character eulogistic idioms used for scholars and martyrs at public funerals in Taiwan based on the framework of cultural linguistics (Lu W (2017a) Religion and worldview in metaphor use: cultural conceptualisations of death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms. In: Sharifian F (ed) Advances in cultural linguistics. Springer, Singapore, pp 49–64; Lu W(2017b) Socio-cultural factors in analyzing the pragmeme of accommodation: a case study of the official online eulogy request system in Taiwan. In: Parvaresh V, Capone A (eds) The pragmeme of accommodation and intercultural pragmatics: the case of interaction around the event of death. Springer, Zurich, pp 111–127). The data used is drawn from the official online eulogy request system established and run by Taipei city government, following the practice in Lu (Religion and worldview in metaphor use: cultural conceptualisations of death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms. In: Sharifian F (ed) Advances in cultural linguistics. Springer, Singapore, pp 49–64, 2017a, Socio-cultural factors in analyzing the pragmeme of accommodation: a case study of the official online eulogy request system in Taiwan. In: Parvaresh V, Capone A (eds) The pragmeme of accommodation and intercultural pragmatics: the case of interaction around the event of death. Springer, Zurich, pp 111–127, 2017b, Cultural “signs of life” in politics: a case study of eulogistic idioms for Taiwanese politicians. In: da Silva Sinha V, Moreno-Núñez A, Tian Z (eds) Signs of life: changes and continuity in language, thought and identity. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp 139–154, 2020a, Viewpoint and metaphor in culture: a cognitive linguistic analysis on a selection of Chinese eulogistic idioms used in Taiwan. Cogn Linguist Stud 7(1):260–279, 2020b). The focus will be on the use of cultural metaphors and allusions in the idioms, with a discussion on the roles played by Farzad Sharifian and the literary tradition associated with his in-depth work in analyzing the language of death.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics

ISBN

9789819937998

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

731-743

Number of pages of the book

877

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Singapore

UT code for WoS chapter

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