Abstract
Many modern European languages describe the sensory act as the result of an object hitting the sense organs more or less strongly. Evidence of similar expressions can already be found in ancient Indo-European languages such as Latin and Greek. Relying on linguistic corpora from ancient and modern languages, I hypothesize the existence of a cross-modal (or supra-modal) metaphor, which conceptualizes the perceptive act in itself, regardless of the sense involved, subsuming the multidimensional nature of perception.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Machine translation] Fragor aureen Percutit. On a conceptual metaphor for perception |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Ubi homo, ibi lingua. Studi in onore di Maria Patrizia Bologna |
Editore | Edizioni Dell'Orso |
Pagine | 1069-1079 |
Numero di pagine | 11 |
ISBN (stampa) | 978-88-3613-283-6 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2022 |
Keywords
- conceptual metaphors perceptual processes Latin ancient Greek