TY - GEN
T1 - Lexical Semantic Evolution of Polysemous Words in Ancient Chinese—Taking Zǒu as an Example
AU - Hsu, Tun Yu
AU - Hong, Jia Fei
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement. This work was supported by National Taiwan Normal University’s Chinese Language and Technology Center. The center is funded by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE), as part of the Featured Areas Research Center Program, under the Higher Education Sprout Project.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study will explore the contexts of the lexical semantic change of the word zǒu “to walk” through the concepts of metonymy and metaphor. By examining the documents from ancient times, middle times to early modern times, this study has found that zǒu “to walk” in ancient times meant “to escape”. During the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, the meaning became “to run”. In early modern times, the major meaning of “to walk” appeared. The semantics of the word zǒu “to walk” in ancient times, middle times, and early modern times has not changed much in basic concepts, following the general concept of “starting point → path → ending point”.
AB - This study will explore the contexts of the lexical semantic change of the word zǒu “to walk” through the concepts of metonymy and metaphor. By examining the documents from ancient times, middle times to early modern times, this study has found that zǒu “to walk” in ancient times meant “to escape”. During the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, the meaning became “to run”. In early modern times, the major meaning of “to walk” appeared. The semantics of the word zǒu “to walk” in ancient times, middle times, and early modern times has not changed much in basic concepts, following the general concept of “starting point → path → ending point”.
KW - Ancient Chinese
KW - Metaphor
KW - Metonymy
KW - Polysemy
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_62
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_62
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139039452
SN - 9783030811969
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 756
EP - 763
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 21st Workshop, CLSW 2020, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Liu, Meichun
A2 - Kit, Chunyu
A2 - Su, Qi
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020
Y2 - 28 May 2020 through 30 May 2020
ER -