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This article presents an analysis of Spanish adjectives that express positive aesthetic evaluation, framed in terms of Conceptual Semantics. The sample of ninety-six adjectives (with one hundred and forty-eight individual meanings) was taken from the Diccionario ideográfico y semántico de la valoración estética positiva en español. Semantic analysis of dictionary definitions showed that beauty is ascribed by way of three distinct conceptual structures, with beauty seen respectively as an intrinsic quality, as cause or effect or as a resemblance. It further showed a clear prevalence of visual attributes and part structure as targets of aesthetic evaluation, with other secondary qualities (like daintiness, perfection, effort, grace, taste and uniqueness) also being ascribed. A quantitative analysis yielded informative correlations between some of these pieces of semantic information, in the form of asymmetries between human and non-human beauty, which point to some interesting implications and questions for Spanish folk aesthetics.
本文以概念语义学为框架，对表达积极审美评价的西班牙语形容词进行了分析。样本中的 96 个形容词（具有 148 个独立含义）来自《西班牙语积极审美评价词典》（Diccionario ideográfico y semántico de la valoración estética positiva en español）。对词典定义的语义分析表明，"美 "有三种不同的概念结构，"美 "分别被视为内在品质、因果关系或相似性。分析还显示，视觉属性和部分结构显然是审美评价的目标，其他次要品质（如精致、完美、努力、优雅、品位和独特性）也被赋予了美感。定量分析得出了其中一些语义信息之间的相关性，即人类美和非人类美之间的不对称，这为西班牙民间美学提出了一些有趣的影响和问题。
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Since its foundation in 1965, Forum for Modern Language Studies has published articles on all aspects of literary and linguistic studies, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The journal sets out to reflect the essential pluralism of modern language and literature studies and to provide a forum for worldwide scholarly discussion. Each annual volume normally includes two thematic issues.
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