滑坡的概念化经济衰退及其框架效应:普通话证据
1College of International Studies, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Frontiers in psychology
|November 15, 2023
概括
自然灾害的隐喻,如山体滑坡,经常用于描述经济衰退. 研究表明,山体滑坡比喻最有效地传达了经济衰退的严重程度,影响了公众的看法.
科学领域:
- 认知语言学 认知语言学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 经济学 经济学 经济学
背景情况:
- 概念隐喻对于理解抽象的社会问题至关重要.
- 自然灾害的隐喻经常被用来框架负面的社会影响,特别是经济衰退.
- 对中国语言学中心 (CCL) 语料库的分析揭示了常见的自然灾害框架,其中经济衰退作为目标领域.
研究的目的:
- 调查自然灾害隐喻在代表经济危机中的普遍性和影响.
- 为了确定经济衰退最突出的灾难比喻.
- 检查隐喻框架对经济严重性感知的影响.
主要方法:
- 基于语料库的语言分析,以确定在经济背景下普遍存在的自然灾害框架.
- 实验性研究,以比较不同灾害隐喻 (特别是山体滑坡) 对经济危机的感知严重程度和影响.
- 分析受隐喻框架影响的参与者意见和判断.
主要成果:
- 在前十大自然灾害框架中,有五个 (地震,洪水,火灾危险,干旱,台风,山体滑坡,火山,沙尘暴,海,碎片流) 与经济衰退有关.
- 滑坡框架被认为是代表经济衰退的最突出的隐喻.
- 参与者认为经济危机更严重,并且表现出受影响的意见和判断.
结论:
- 隐喻表示是沟通经济风险的强大工具.
- 滑坡隐喻极大地影响了人们对经济危机严重程度的看法.
- 仔细考虑隐喻框架对于有效沟通经济风险至关重要.
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