"Hear" as "understand"

[martin.hilpert]

Lindström and Wide (2005) discuss the Swedish 'you know'-type discourse 
particles /ser du/ ‘do you see’, /hör du/ ‘do you hear’, /förstår du/ 
‘do you understand’, and /vet du/ ‘do you know’. Maybe that is not 'hear 
as understand', but there is definitely some 'see vs. hear'.

Here's the full refrence: Lindström, Jan and Camilla Wide. 2005. Tracing 
the origins of a set of discourse particles.Swedish particles of the 
type you know. Journal of historical pragmatics. 6.2: 211–236.

Best, --Martin




Nino Amiridze schrieb:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I was wondering whether you could help me in finding languages that
> use the verb 'hear' for 'understand', just like English uses 'see' for
> the same purpose (I see (=I understand)).
>
> I would be grateful if you could give data and/or references, if there
> are investigations on the use of the 'see' vs. 'hear' verbs in
> figurative language.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards,
> Nino Amiridze
> http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/
>