Abstract
Embodied cognition is a basic way for people to understand the world. As the basic sense of people, the tactile sense plays an important role in the process of understanding the world. Existing research focused on the definition, preliminary comparison between Chinese and foreign tactile adjectives, and the extension of word meanings of tactile adjectives, but there is rarely any systematic study on the distribution of the collocations of Chinese tactile adjectives. In this paper, the typical adjectives 軟 ruǎn ‘soft’ and 硬 yìng ‘hard’ of the tactile domain were selected as representatives. We used a large-scale corpus to extract the collocational data of the two adjectives and annotated the word meaning of 軟 ruǎn ‘soft’ and 硬 yìng ‘hard’ in each sentence, as well as the semantic categories of their collocates. We then compared the characteristics of their collocates in the experiential domain and the abstract domain by exploring the distribution of their collocates. This study is helpful in deepening understanding of lexicon expansion in different cognitive domains and better understanding the cognitive process of the tactile sense.
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The number refers to types (different collocates), not tokens (all collocates, including repeated ones) in the whole paper.
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This research is supported by University of Macau (MYRG2019–00013-FAH).
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Wang, S., Wu, L., Gong, Q. (2021). The Collocations of Chinese Tactile Adjectives. In: Liu, M., Kit, C., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_59
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