Chinese Sketch Engine and Mapping Principles: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors Using the BUILDING Source Domain
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The goal of this paper is to use a largescale corpus, i.e. the Gigaword Corpus via the interface of Chinese Sketch Engine, to determine underlying reasons between source and target domain pairings for conceptual metaphors, called Mapping Principles. In particular, we will employ a frequency-based collocational approach to examine metaphors that use the source domain of BUILDING in Mandarin Chinese. The corpus data demonstrates that different target domains use the source domain of BUILDING for different underlying reasons. Our study follows the contrastive linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors proposed by the Conceptual Mapping Model and help us better understand why certain mappings exist between knowledge domains.
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