| dc.creator | CHING-YU HSIEH,SHELLEY | |
| dc.date | 2013-01-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-25T13:22:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-25T13:22:40Z | |
| dc.identifier | https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48832013000100002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/75296 | |
| dc.description | This study focuses on the body-part hand in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish with the majority of the data taken from Chinese Mandarin Online Dictionary and Web edition of Lin Yutang s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. The Spanish data were obtained from Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual de la Real Academia Española and Lanbridge Diccionario Manual Español-Chino. The research questions are: (1) What meanings do the hand expressions in both languages convey? (2) What are the meanings based on? (3) Is there a cognitive model behind them? The answer of the third question is based on that of the first two. We found that (a) +people, +action, and +power are the most frequently occurring semantic molecules for hand expressions, (b) the favorite underlying conceits that generate hand expressions are behavior and function , (c) BODY IS FUNCTION proves true, and (d) we propose that BODY IS STATIC is more fundamental based on the observation in hand expressions. | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte | |
| dc.relation | 10.4067/S0718-48832013000100002 | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.source | RLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada v.51 n.1 2013 | |
| dc.subject | Body part | |
| dc.subject | hand | |
| dc.subject | cognitive semantics | |
| dc.subject | Spanish | |
| dc.subject | Mandarin Chinese | |
| dc.subject | underlying conceits | |
| dc.title | What does hand express in Chinese and Spanish? | |
