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The meaning extensions of human body part terms in thai idioms

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2015

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19112017

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10.5539/ass.v11n9p146

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Asian Social Science. Vol 11, No.9 (2015), p.146-157

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Wongthai N. The meaning extensions of human body part terms in thai idioms. Asian Social Science. Vol 11, No.9 (2015), p.146-157. doi:10.5539/ass.v11n9p146 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/6147

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The meaning extensions of human body part terms in thai idioms

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Wongthai N.

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This paper presents the linguistics evidence from Thai idioms in support of the claim that our bodily experience plays a prominent role in the meaning construction. The data was collected from 29 Thai idiom books. The analysis is primarily based on metaphor, metonymy and chained metonymies in cognitive semantic approach. The data show that metaphor and metonymy are the motivating forces behind the semantic extension in the body part terms in Thai. However, most of the meaning extension of body part terms is found via metonymy. This fact supports the claim that metonymy is a more fundamental cognitive phenomena than metaphor. The most extended meaning found in the data is person. The body part term that its meaning is extended most is hand. This study also is a linguistic manifestation of Thai culture. © 2015, Canadian Center of Science and Education. All rights reserved.

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