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Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches.

How is loudness expressed metaphorically in Chinese? In this study, using the lexical and corpus-based approaches to metaphor studies, I examine linguistic manifestations of five loudness metaphors with the following source concepts: HEIGHT, BRIGHTNESS, SIZE, THICKNESS, and WEIGHT. On the one hand,...

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Published in:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 259 - 284
Main Author: Huang, Jie
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2025
Subjects:
Metaphor
Chinese language
Loudness
English language
Larynx
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