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Chapter Two Literature Review

2.1 Previous Studies on Synaesthesia 

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Qian Zhongshu (2002) pioneeringly noted a descriptive technique widely applied in Chinese literature when it was not definitively understood by ancient critics, namely synaesthesia or the transfer of sensation in linguistics. In daily experience, senses can in fact be more mutually connected and less hierarchical. Colors can have temperature and sound can create images. Countless works of literature have come to a consensus that the primary rule is “听声类形”. He put this term in the spotlight: its linguistic features; its rhetoric functions as a figure of speech; its psychological features and physiological commonality.

After Qian Zhongshu determined the confines for the study of synaesthesia, the rhetoric field began to study synaesthesia from a new perspective. First of all, Yuan Hui (1985) expressed “synaesthesia” as a precondition of speech figure from different levels. He believed that synaesthesia is vivid, regular and flexible, which determines that “synaesthesia” could fit into the category of the figure of speech. Secondly, Wang Mingrui (1992) first proposed that “synesthesia has the characteristic of synchronicity, which is also the objective characteristic of figures of speech”. Figures of speech can be expressed multi-laterally and not fixed. Finally, synaesthesia was thought to add allure and is closely connected to other rhetorical figures (Huang, 1994). 

2.2 Previous Studies on Concept Integration Theory 

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The research on CIT in China begins at the beginning of this century, with Wang Shaohua and Zheng Shoujiang’s (2000) From Hybrid Space Theory to Metaphorical Meaning Construction. Yin Wang (2007) introduced CIT later and compared integration to “a chemical change that produces a new substance”. 

Gilles Fauconnier proposed CIT in 1985, and it was subsequently considered to be “the most influential in explaining the innovative thinking of human beings and the emergence of new concepts”. And was subsequently developed further by Fauconnier himself and Mark Turner (2002) and other researchers, such as Brandt who developed five-space-theory. Coulson (2005) re-defined two concepts of input spaces and made a careful explication of Fauconnier’s theory. The CIT system has been constantly enriched by successors including Hutchins (2005), Harder (2005) and Hougaard (2005). Grady et al. (2005) endeavored to discover its relation to CMT. Bache (2005) highlighted its shortcomings and stated his own theory.  

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Wang Zhengyuan (2009) used it in linguistic analysis to “discover a new point of entry for form and meaning”. In addition, like Wang Bin (2005, 2009) and Yin Fulin (2007), a growing number of researchers have also attempted to apply CIT to translation. Despite the efforts of some to avoid it the poor understanding of this theory, the vast majority of current domestic research related to CIT are more like theoretical application rather than theoretical innovation.

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