A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’

Jinmeng Dou; Meichun Liu; Zhuo Zhang

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_20

A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’

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This paper conducts a corpus-based semantic analysis on the adverbial uses of the Chinese color term bai ‘white’ regarding its two metaphorical meanings – “In vain/For no reason” and “Free of charge”. Based on distributional semantics, it is hypothesized that the semantic (dis)similarities of the two meanings can be captured by their usage features in real corpora. In the current study, the multiple correspondence analysis technique is employed to explore the distinctive usage patterns of the two metaphorical meanings based on a dataset that consists of 195 sentences randomly extracted from corpora. These sentences are manually annotated with 19 usage features, encompassing linguistic information from lexical-collocational, semantic, and discourse levels. By visualizing the general distributional patterns of the two meanings and their association strengths with the distinctive usage features, it is found that there are remarkable (dis)similarities between the two metaphorical senses regarding their usage variations, which can be used to explain the cognitive motivations of the two meanings in line with the Conceptual Metaphor theory. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Subtitle of host publication	24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Editors	Minghui Dong, Jia-Fei Hong, Jingxia Lin, Peng Jin
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	254-265
Volume	Part I
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-97-0583-2
ISBN (Print)	9789819705825
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_20
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2024
Event	24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2023) - National University of Singapore, Singapore Duration: 19 May 2023 → 21 May 2023 https://www.asianlp.sg/conferences/clsw2023/web/en/welcome-en/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	14514
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2023)
Place	Singapore
Period	19/05/23 → 21/05/23
Internet address	https://www.asianlp.sg/conferences/clsw2023/web/en/welcome-en/

Research Keywords

Chinese Color Term
Conceptual Metaphor
Multiple Correspondence Analysis
Polysemy

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Dou, J., Liu, M., & Zhang, Z. (2024). A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’. In M. Dong, J.-F. Hong, J. Lin, & P. Jin (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Vol. Part I, pp. 254-265). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14514). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_20

Dou, Jinmeng ; Liu, Meichun ; Zhang, Zhuo. / A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. editor / Minghui Dong ; Jia-Fei Hong ; Jingxia Lin ; Peng Jin. Vol. Part I Singapore : Springer , 2024. pp. 254-265 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Dou, J , Liu, M & Zhang, Z 2024, A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’. in M Dong, J-F Hong, J Lin & P Jin (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. vol. Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14514, Springer , Singapore, pp. 254-265, 24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2023), Singapore, 19/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_20

A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’. / Dou, Jinmeng ; Liu, Meichun ; Zhang, Zhuo.
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. ed. / Minghui Dong; Jia-Fei Hong; Jingxia Lin; Peng Jin. Vol. Part I Singapore: Springer , 2024. p. 254-265 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14514).

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Dou J , Liu M , Zhang Z. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term Bai ‘White’. In Dong M, Hong JF, Lin J, Jin P, editors, Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Vol. Part I. Singapore: Springer . 2024. p. 254-265. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Epub 2024 Feb 28. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_20

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