Cross-domain descriptions are descriptions of features pertaining to one domain in terms of vocabulary primarily associated with another domain. Notably, we routinely describe psychological features in terms of the sensory domain and vice versa. Sorrow is said to be ‘bitter’ and fear ‘cold’. Music can be described as ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘mournful’, and so on. Such descriptions are rife in both everyday discourse and literary writings. What is it about psychological features that invites descriptions in sensory terms and what is it about the sensory that invites descriptions in terms of the psychological? Drawing on the literature on polysemy, this paper sheds light on cross-domain descriptions pertaining to the sensory and the psychological domains.

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跨域描述：感官和心理

跨领域描述是根据主要与另一个领域相关联的词汇对属于一个领域的特征的描述。值得注意的是，我们经常用感官领域来描述心理特征，反之亦然。悲则曰“苦”，恐曰“寒”。音乐可以描述为“喜”、“悲”、“悲”等。这样的描述在日常话语和文学作品中都很普遍。什么是需要用感官术语来描述的心理特征，又是什么需要用心理术语来描述的感觉？本文借鉴多义词的文献，阐明了与感官和心理领域有关的跨领域描述。