Synaesthesia, based on the common human physiological mechanism, is a linguistic and psychological phenomenon. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is viewed as a kind of metaphor, for both domains （the sourc...Synaesthesia, based on the common human physiological mechanism, is a linguistic and psychological phenomenon. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is viewed as a kind of metaphor, for both domains （the source domain and the target domain） of the metaphor are human sensations. The paper explores the aesthetic mechanisms of synaesthesia, applies the conceptual metaphor theory to analyze Chinese and English synaesthetic phenomena so as to reveal the rules of cross-domain mapping.展开更多
In The House on Mango Street, American ethnic Mexican female writer Sandra Cisneros probes into Latino American’s collective identity and Latinas’ gender identity. Literature and psychology has been linked together...In The House on Mango Street, American ethnic Mexican female writer Sandra Cisneros probes into Latino American’s collective identity and Latinas’ gender identity. Literature and psychology has been linked together starting from Plato and Aristotle period. In the neuropsychological domain, synaesthesia allows people to combine several perceptions together; while in literature, it magically melts the “voice” of the author’s into the works. To interpret the female voice of the book, this article analyzes the voice of poverty and distress, of pursuing ethnic equality, and of pursuing female independence, on the basis of the psychological perception, synaesthesia, so as to reveal Sandra Cisneros’s feminist voice on the reflections of ethnic Mexican female values by her beautiful naive poetic language, with a pure and innocent tone.展开更多
Recently the academia tends to take synaesthesia metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon and an important part of the research of cognitive linguistics since synaesthesia metaphor symbolizes the way we perceive the world a...Recently the academia tends to take synaesthesia metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon and an important part of the research of cognitive linguistics since synaesthesia metaphor symbolizes the way we perceive the world and the way we think.Blending Space Theory is a theoretical framework interpreting the cognitive activities.The present paper attempts to divide the synaesthesia metaphor into two kinds;tries to obtain the cognitive interpretation of synaesthesia metaphors based on Blending Space Theory,and further deepens people’s understanding of the research object:synaesthesia metaphor.展开更多
Synaesthesia is a sensual feeling moved from one sense to another,it is a kind of rhetorical means as well as a cognitive device.According to Conceptual Blending Theory,synaesthesia is a set of mappings between differ...Synaesthesia is a sensual feeling moved from one sense to another,it is a kind of rhetorical means as well as a cognitive device.According to Conceptual Blending Theory,synaesthesia is a set of mappings between different sensory organs,whose meaning construction process is a dynamic conceptual blending process,in which two or more sensory organs constitute different input mental spaces.In the blending process,different input spaces map between each other,and elements in inputs are selectively projected onto the blended space,which has its own emergent structure.Then,through composition,completion and elaboration,the blended space develops its own emergent content which is different from that of the inputs,thus producing new meaning.The in-depth study of the dynamic meaning construction process of synaesthesia based on the conceptual blending theory gives a strong explanatory force to synaesthesia and helps people to make better use of synaesthesia to express their thoughts and feelings.展开更多
文摘Synaesthesia, based on the common human physiological mechanism, is a linguistic and psychological phenomenon. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is viewed as a kind of metaphor, for both domains （the source domain and the target domain） of the metaphor are human sensations. The paper explores the aesthetic mechanisms of synaesthesia, applies the conceptual metaphor theory to analyze Chinese and English synaesthetic phenomena so as to reveal the rules of cross-domain mapping.
文摘In The House on Mango Street, American ethnic Mexican female writer Sandra Cisneros probes into Latino American’s collective identity and Latinas’ gender identity. Literature and psychology has been linked together starting from Plato and Aristotle period. In the neuropsychological domain, synaesthesia allows people to combine several perceptions together; while in literature, it magically melts the “voice” of the author’s into the works. To interpret the female voice of the book, this article analyzes the voice of poverty and distress, of pursuing ethnic equality, and of pursuing female independence, on the basis of the psychological perception, synaesthesia, so as to reveal Sandra Cisneros’s feminist voice on the reflections of ethnic Mexican female values by her beautiful naive poetic language, with a pure and innocent tone.
文摘Recently the academia tends to take synaesthesia metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon and an important part of the research of cognitive linguistics since synaesthesia metaphor symbolizes the way we perceive the world and the way we think.Blending Space Theory is a theoretical framework interpreting the cognitive activities.The present paper attempts to divide the synaesthesia metaphor into two kinds;tries to obtain the cognitive interpretation of synaesthesia metaphors based on Blending Space Theory,and further deepens people’s understanding of the research object:synaesthesia metaphor.
文摘Synaesthesia is a sensual feeling moved from one sense to another,it is a kind of rhetorical means as well as a cognitive device.According to Conceptual Blending Theory,synaesthesia is a set of mappings between different sensory organs,whose meaning construction process is a dynamic conceptual blending process,in which two or more sensory organs constitute different input mental spaces.In the blending process,different input spaces map between each other,and elements in inputs are selectively projected onto the blended space,which has its own emergent structure.Then,through composition,completion and elaboration,the blended space develops its own emergent content which is different from that of the inputs,thus producing new meaning.The in-depth study of the dynamic meaning construction process of synaesthesia based on the conceptual blending theory gives a strong explanatory force to synaesthesia and helps people to make better use of synaesthesia to express their thoughts and feelings.
