%0 Journal Article
%T Polysemy and Enantiosemy: Mandarin <i>Dui</i>  and Taiwanese <i>Tui</i>
%A Larry Hong Lin Li
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 32-46
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2019.91004
%X From a cognitive viewpoint, we compare Mandarin <i>Dui</i> and Taiwanese <i>Tui</i> by looking into their sense developments in the <i>Dui</i>/<i>Tui</i> + NOUN Construction. <i>Dui</i> and <i>Tui</i> are usually regarded as lexical equivalents across Mandarin and Taiwanese, two of the major languages spoken in Taiwan. Assuming with Lakoff (1987) that polysemy is a semantic network with radial categories, we adopt a metaphorical approach in our investigation. Through metaphorical extensions, <i>Dui</i> and <i>Tui</i> develop distinct routes to developing differing but related senses, forming differential semantic networks. Both <i>Dui</i> and <i>Tui</i> profile spatial-, eventive-, and communicative-domain senses. However, Taiwanese <i>Tui</i>, but not Mandarin <i>Dui</i>, encodes a temporal sense. Apart from polysemous expansion, we also address the enantiosemy arising in the ˇ°toˇ± and ˇ°fromˇ± senses attached to Taiwanese <i>Tui</i>. The findings of our study offer insight into the nature of polysemy as well as the lexical differentiation across Mandarin and Taiwanese.
%K Polysemy
%K Enantiosemy
%K Path Schema
%K Metaphor
%K Focus-Shifting
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=90871