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
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.