TY - CHAP
T1 - Cross-Categorial Behaviors of Mandarin Physical Contact Verbs
T2 - A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of qiāodǎ 敲打
AU - He, Tianqi
AU - Liu, Meichun
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This study aims to conduct a frame-based and corpus-based analysis on the cross-categorial behaviors of the prototypical Physical Contact verb qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ and explore the cognitive motivations involved in the semantic extension process. Different from the well-accepted mapping from physical impact to mental impact, qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ also implies the result or manipulative purpose of mental impact. Therefore, it can be further extended to Communication or Manipulation frame by syntactically coding verbal element or intended act as participant roles. The semantic extension of qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ is not only motivated by conceptual metaphor, but also by metonymy-based metaphor and accompanied by semantic-syntactic changes. This study analyzes and accounts for the cross-categorial behaviors of qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ and discusses the involved cognitive motivations and semantic-syntactic criteria for conceptual transfer, which constitutes a major task in the construction of Mandarin VerbNet and plays a significant role in the study of verbal semantics.
AB - This study aims to conduct a frame-based and corpus-based analysis on the cross-categorial behaviors of the prototypical Physical Contact verb qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ and explore the cognitive motivations involved in the semantic extension process. Different from the well-accepted mapping from physical impact to mental impact, qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ also implies the result or manipulative purpose of mental impact. Therefore, it can be further extended to Communication or Manipulation frame by syntactically coding verbal element or intended act as participant roles. The semantic extension of qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ is not only motivated by conceptual metaphor, but also by metonymy-based metaphor and accompanied by semantic-syntactic changes. This study analyzes and accounts for the cross-categorial behaviors of qiāodǎ 敲打 ‘knock’ and discusses the involved cognitive motivations and semantic-syntactic criteria for conceptual transfer, which constitutes a major task in the construction of Mandarin VerbNet and plays a significant role in the study of verbal semantics.
KW - cross-categorial extension
KW - From contact to communication
KW - Metonymy-based metaphor
KW - Physical contact verbs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85132993325
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132993325&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_7
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 978-3-031-06702-0
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 84
EP - 95
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics
A2 - Dong, Minghui
A2 - Gu, Yanhui
A2 - Hong, Jia-Fei
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -