Many modern European languages describe the sensory act as the result of an object hitting the sense organs more or less strongly. Evidence of similar expressions can already be found in ancient Indo-European languages such as Latin and Greek. Relying on linguistic corpora from ancient and modern languages, I hypothesize the existence of a cross-modal (or supra-modal) metaphor, which conceptualizes the perceptive act in itself, regardless of the sense involved, subsuming the multidimensional nature of perception.
Pontani, P., Fragor aurem percutit. Su una metafora concettuale della percezione, in Biondi, L., Dedè, F., Scala, A., Ubi homo, ibi lingua. Studi in onore di Maria Patrizia Bologna, Edizioni dell'Orso, Novi Ligure (AL) 2022: 1069-1079 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/230971]
Fragor aurem percutit. Su una metafora concettuale della percezione
Pontani, Paola
2022
Abstract
Many modern European languages describe the sensory act as the result of an object hitting the sense organs more or less strongly. Evidence of similar expressions can already be found in ancient Indo-European languages such as Latin and Greek. Relying on linguistic corpora from ancient and modern languages, I hypothesize the existence of a cross-modal (or supra-modal) metaphor, which conceptualizes the perceptive act in itself, regardless of the sense involved, subsuming the multidimensional nature of perception.
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