Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia, Moscow, masimonenko@yandex.ru
The paper explores synaesthetic metaphor as a predominant form of verbal synesthesia and explains compliance of synaesthetic expressions with major principles of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Russian and British Corpora provide evidence for unidirectionality of synaesthetic transfers and cross-sensory asymmetry. The statement equating synaesthetic metaphors and verbal synesthesia is criticized. Alternatively, the author suggests a hypothesis of hyperonym-hyponym relations between the two concepts.
Conceptual Metaphor Theory; verbal synesthesia; synaesthetic metaphor; mapping; synaesthetic transfer; sensory language
Download textFor citing: Simonenko, M.A. (2022). «Verbal synesthesia = metaphor»: axiom or linguistic hypothesis? Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(10), pp. 76-89. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2022.03.06