A Corpus-based Approach to the Quantifiers of Emotion Metaphors in Chinese: A Case Study of Happiness

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10.2991/saeme-18.2018.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Emotion metaphor; conceptualization; corpus-based approach; quantifier; happiness

Abstract

The major goal of this study is investigate the quantifiers of emotion metaphor “happiness” in Chinese and its English translation, by utilizing a corpus-based analysis. Emotion metaphors are very abstract by nature, there are no quantifiers in English emotion metaphors, but Chinese express their feelings in metaphors with lots of quantifiers. How many kinds of quantifiers are used in Chinese metaphor “happiness”? How to make a vivid English translation? To these end, the current study identify and examines the quantifiers of Chinese metaphorical expression “happiness”, and suggest a better English translation

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenhui Zhao
AU  - Qin Tang
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - A Corpus-based Approach to the Quantifiers of Emotion Metaphors in Chinese: A Case Study of Happiness
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Sports, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (SAEME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 102
EP  - 105
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/saeme-18.2018.19
DO  - 10.2991/saeme-18.2018.19
ID  - Zhao2018/06
ER  -