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Cultural Metaphor and Cultural Metonymy in Taiwanese Mandarin
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Kapitola v knize |
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| Popis | 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-Núnez 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. |