| Human perceives the world through sense and touch is basic sense.Touch is in disadvantageous position to sense of vision and hearing. It is to construct touch semantic system in order to perfect tthe study of this filed. The system is divided into semantic nouns,semantic verb and semantic adjectives in the view of part-of-speech.It was using metaphor theory that put forward by Lakoff and Johnson to study tactile noun.It is to analyse cognitive noun"skin"and probe the original and directly projected, container metaphor, emotional metaphor and color metaphors. Some characteristics of skin as the Tactile sense organs mapping to other things, maked upon the significance of organ nouns won the new development.Under the background of semantic grammar that put forward by Mr. Li Baojia,this study analyzed the touch sensory words and construct semantic network built up by the core verb"touch". two inner roles( agent and patient),nine outer roles (range ,location, time, tool, condition, cause, purpose ,manner and result) and mood category were made into semantic structure patterns of sentences.For the research of tactile adjectives involved other subjects, this paper referenced psychological concept for tactile adjectives to make a simple classification. For typical tactile adjectives "light/heavy" "soft/hard" "loose/tight" lexical semantic study refered from the dictionary explanation, discussed the metaphor of different meanings of context and explored semantic extensions rule. |
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