隐喻处理:引用和预言
1Linguistics (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences), University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK.
Cognition
|July 7, 2023
概括
隐喻处理通常是毫不费力的,但这项研究表明,参考隐喻需要比预测性隐喻更大的认知努力. 这种差异不管句子的位置如何,都存在,突出了参考隐喻理解的独特方面.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
背景情况:
- 几十年的研究表明,比喻处理不需要比字面语言更努力,当上下文适当时.
- 一些研究与此相矛盾,提出实用理论预测比喻的认知成本更高.
- 在处理比喻语言时存在差异,比喻语言是预言性的,而不是参考性的.
研究的目的:
- 调查与不同使用隐喻相关的认知成本.
- 为了测试参考比喻比预言比喻的处理成本更高的假设.
- 要确定句子的位置是否会影响参考隐喻的处理力.
主要方法:
- 调查和评估现有的隐喻处理实验 (1970年代至今).
- 进行了两次自律阅读实验,使用隐喻和字面语言.
- 操纵隐喻引用表达式 (主体与对象) 的位置,以控制句子位置效应.
主要成果:
- 参考比喻的处理成本明显高于字面等价的比喻.
- 比喻预测没有显示与字面语言相比,处理成本增加.
- 参考隐喻的成本增加是一致的,无论它们在句子中的位置如何.
结论:
- 比喻的引用性使用与其预言性使用相比,需要独特的努力.
- 在隐喻理解中的认知努力取决于语言功能 (参考与预测).
- 需要进一步分析,以了解参考隐喻处理所涉及的努力背后的具体机制.
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