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冤 Yuan! Conceptual metaphors for INJUSTICE in Chinese

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Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
From the journal Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques Volume 76 Issue 4

Abstract

Law concerns every aspect of our lives. However, rarely do scholars investigate metaphors of law, let alone those used in Mandarin, to which smaller attention is devoted in metaphor studies if compared to English. In this study I investigated the word yuan 冤, a Chinese word referring to immoral and illegal deeds such as ‘injustice, wrong, tort’, but also ‘vengeance’ and ‘bad luck’, to find the mappings it realises. Previous approaches to Chinese moral metaphors used a source-domain oriented approach, thus finding a limited set of mappings. In this study, I devised a method (MetaCoCoTaC) of finding metaphors at the word compound and collocate level starting from a monosyllabic target-domain word, yuan, that enabled me to find more and new source domains for INJUSTICE, including SOUND, FOOD, MOVEMENT, and ANIMAL. The findings of this research also enable us to account for the polysemy of the word yuan. Moreover, discrepancies with previous studies were discovered as to the way far more predictable domains, such as VERTICALITY and OBJECT, are actually used. Finally, some unique aspects of the Chinese morphology and the Chinese logographic script that are not systematically taken into consideration in relation to metaphor research were also addressed.

Keywords: Chinese morphology; Chinese script; metaphors of law; moral metaphors; target-domain oriented approach to metaphor identification in Chinese
Corresponding author: Michele Mannoni, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona, Via S. Francesco 22, Room 3.03, 37129 Verona, Italy, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

Over the time I carried out this study, I could benefit from the feedback of various scholars and from the access to a variety of resources, so a number of thanks are necessary. This research was presented at different stages at the conferences “Study Days of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics” (2018) held at the Cattolica University of Milan; “Linguistics of Asian Languages” (2019) held by the Adam Mickiewicz University; “Translation History and Translation Stories” (2019) held by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; “Corpus Linguistics Summer School” (2019) held by the University of Birmingham; and the “Chinese Fa 灋/法 and its neighbouring areas within the Euro-Asiatic Space” held by the Accademia Ambrosiana. The audiences of these conferences are acknowledged for their feedback. I am particularly grateful to Dr. Bodo Winter for giving me his feedback following my presentation in Birmingham. The Institute of History and Philology (中央研究院歷史語言研究所) and the Institutum Iurisprudentiae (法律學研究所) at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院) in Taipei are also acknowledged for having hosted me as a visiting scholar in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Besides having access to the immense libraries of Academia Sinica, I benefitted from discussions with my hosts, Prof. Ping-I Chu 祝平一 and Prof. Tzung-Mou Wu 吳宗謀, both kindly thanked. In Taipei I had the chance to talk to a few members of the Taiwan Innocence Project (Táiwān Yuānyù Píngfǎn Xiéhuì 台灣冤獄平反協會) aiding the wrongfully convicted: its executive director Mr Shih-Hsiang Luo 羅士翔 and Mrs Vivian Wei-An Tsai 蔡惟安 are thanked for their time. Finally, I am grateful to Prof. Raymond W. Gibbs for his suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript, Prof. I-Wen Su 蘇以文 for having discussed with me some aspects of this study, and Prof. Deborah Cao for inspiring me on yuān 冤 with her book Chinese Language in Law: Code Red. It goes without saying that any mistakes are solely my own and that mentioning them here is not to be intended as their endorsement of the research I presented in this article.

  1. Research Funding: This work was supported by the funding from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research granted to my department under the ‘Departments of Excellence’ plan for the project ‘Digital Humanities Applied to Foreign Languages and Literature’ (2018–2022).

  2. Declaration of interest statement: I have no competing interests to disclose.

Appendix 1

List of the metaphorical collocates and compound words of yuān 冤 retrieved with MetaCoCoTaC in the zhTenTen11 corpus of Sketch Engine grouped into source domains (below categories) and primary categories (upper categories)

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Keywords for this article
Chinese morphology; Chinese script; metaphors of law; moral metaphors; target-domain oriented approach to metaphor identification in Chinese

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