Salt Makes Language Salty Too: Taiwanese is a Verb-Framed Language

鹽mā ē hō語言變鹹：Lán-lâng-ōe是屬於動詞框架語言

謝菁玉/Cheng-giok CHIĀ(Shelley Ching-yu Depner)

《台語研究》 12卷2期 (2020/09) Pp. 52-80

https://doi.org/10.6621/JTV.202009_12(2).0003

摘要

Salt is a typical condiment and an essential nutrient for the human body. Salt and salty related utterances, e.g., kè-kiâm-chúi 過鹹水 'pass-salty-water = go abroad', also play a role in language. This study collects expressions that employ salt and salty from Taiwanese corpora and dictionaries. Research questions ask: (1) What cultural attributes does salty express?; (2) What social communication scripts does salty constitute in the metaphorical domain?; and, (3) What language type does Taiwanese belong to? Script category (Nguyen and Murphy 2003) and the typology of verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages (Talmy 2000) are adopted as the theoretical background. The results show social communicative functions of salt / salty and that Taiwanese is a verb-framed language.

關鍵字

salt utterances ； salt culture ； Taiwanese ； Mandarin Chinese ； language type

並列摘要

鹽是lán人必需要ê營養素。Hām鹽、鹹相關ê語詞（譬如：kòe-kiâm-chúi過鹹水‘出國’）是chit篇論文所siū^n-beh研究ê。我用kha本類別（Script category，Nguyen和Murphy 2003）以及動詞框架／衛星框架語言類型（the typology of verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages，Talmy 2000）作理論背景。將chit-chióng ê lán-lâng-ōe語詞hām華語以及德語做chit-ê比較。研究問題有：（1）鹹語詞表達siá^n -mih款ê文化屬性？（2）鹹tī隱喻領域中kám有構成社會交際文字？（3）Lán-lâng-ōe是屬於toh chit ê語言類型？研究結果有顯示出鹽hām鹹語詞ê社會交流功能，mā同時看出lán-lâng-ōe是屬於動詞框架語言。

並列關鍵字

鹽／鹹相關ê語詞 ； 鹽文化 ； 台語 ； 華語 ； 語言類型

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