KITSCH    媚俗

SENTIMENTALLY BEAUTIFUL AND VULGAR.
Modern Chinese Criteria
We need to investigate when and how Chinese notions along these lines have emerged. Lin Yutang has no word which he translates by "kitsch". Even the translation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the 英語辭海, only a discursive paraphrase is offered for "kitsch", no current word is suggested. However, we do have: 媚俗 粗俗作品 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BEAUTIFUL　EXCELLENT in APPEARANCE. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • EXCELLENT　FEATURE BECAUSE of which SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS OR SHOULD BE PREFERRED to OTHERS (anc: 4/0, child: 11)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 672

    KITSCH

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2281

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 4.844

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 4.950

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 4.59

    MELODRAMA

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 3.272

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 159A

    ABGESCHMACKT

    • Words (2 items)

    偶俗  ǒu sú MC: nguwX zjowk OC: ŋooʔ sɢloɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe kitschy, be Kitsch, be kitschCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe kitschy, be Kitsch, be kitschCH