Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Payam-e-noor University, Tehran
Abstract
This study done within the sensory linguistics framework, aims at determining the rate of linguistic encodings of hearing sense in comparison to taste sense across three lexical categories; noun, adjective and verb, in the New Persian language. . It’s a qualitative, data- based research done by descriptive -analytical method. The research data was gathered from Great Sokhan dictionary which is one of the latest monolingual dictionaries of Persian and mostly comprehensive. All the nouns, adjectives and verbs related to hearing and taste senses were extracted and the frequency of each lexical category for each sense was determined and compared. Then the findings of this study were compared to the findings of Winter and Strik Lievers’ (2018) research in English. The results showed that the total rate of hearing linguistic encodings is a little more than twice of the taste sense ones. Also, the total number of verbs in hearing sense was ten times more than the verbs in the tase sense, which is along with the Winter and Strik Lievers’ view, but the number of nouns in the taste sense in the Persian data was a little more than the number of nouns in the hearing sense, though the distance was not meaningful. Comparing the result of Persian data to the English revealed there was a similarity between the linguistic encodings of the hearing sense across three lexical categories in these two languages but they are not the same regarding the taste sense.
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