A Comparative Study of the Extended Meanings of “to Eat”

Authors

  • จิ่ง เสิ่น
  • เมธาวี ยุทธพงษ์ธาดา
  • รุจิรา เส้งเนตร

Keywords:

extended meaning, compound word, metaphor, metonymy

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the extended meanings of the word "eat" in Thai and Chinese by collecting compound words that contain the word "eat" in verb + object pattern. The study findings indicated that the word "eat", which is the component of a compound word in Thai, has a total of 12 meanings: to spoil, to waste, to use up, to win, to intrude, to match, to receive, to corrupt, to have sex, to occupy, to depend , proper name. However, the Chinese word ว่า “吃”(chī) or "eat", which is the component of a compound word in Mandarin, has a total of 9 meanings: to receive, to corrupt, to intrude, to waste, to buy, to depend, to absorb, to work, and to use up. All these meanings were linked to the original meaning of the word "eat" through two strategies of semantic extension, metonymy and metaphor.

 

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Published

2019-06-24

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เสิ่น จ., ยุทธพงษ์ธาดา เ., & เส้งเนตร ร. (2019). A Comparative Study of the Extended Meanings of “to Eat”. Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (JHUSOC), 17(1), หน้า 67–84. retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jhusoc/article/view/197041

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