Jinju Li

This study employs a synaesthetic metaphor approach to examine the gustatory word "LA" in both English and Chinese. It draws upon COCA and CCL as its primary data sources. The term "辣(la)" was chosen as the research focus in Chinese. Since there is no direct equivalent in English, four words were chosen as the research focus: peppery, acrid, spicy, and pungent. The research findings indicate that there are both similarities and differences in the synaesthetic metaphors associated with the gustatory word "LA" between English and Chinese.

LA; synaesthetic metaphors; corpus-based

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