The Impact of Metaphorical Prime on Metaphor Comprehension Processes*

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hooshang Khoshsima, Nahid Yarahmadzehi, F. Marmolejo‐Ramos
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the understanding of a metaphor is influenced by a metaphorical prime. Participants of the study were 30 undergraduate students of Chabahar Maritime University. An experiment was conducted in which the participants were expected to make judgements on the sensicality of 10 metaphors in two phases. In the no-prime condition, metaphors were not preceded by any prime. In the metaphor-prime condition, the same metaphors were preceded by metaphorical primes. Metaphors and metaphor primes were designed in a way that the nature of the relationship between topic and vehicle in each metaphor and its prime was similar, although there was no similarity between concrete features of the two metaphors. The results indicated that when a metaphor is preceded by a metaphorical prime, judgement on the sensicality of metaphor is faster and the metaphor is judged to be more sensical. Based on these results, it can be suggested that two superficially different metaphors might share a domain at a level beyond concrete features of topic and vehicle. In other words, the superficial or concrete features of topic and vehicle in metaphor prime, and its following metaphorical sentence, play no significant role in this respect. It is the activation of a shared domain in the metaphor prime that has a noticeable influence on the understanding of the following metaphorical sentence.
隐喻素对隐喻理解过程的影响*
本研究的目的是调查隐喻的理解在多大程度上受到隐喻素数的影响。这项研究的参与者是恰巴哈尔海事大学的30名本科生。进行了一项实验,要求参与者分两个阶段对10个隐喻的意义做出判断。在无素数条件下,隐喻前面没有任何素数。在隐喻素条件下,相同的隐喻前有隐喻素。隐喻和隐喻素的设计方式是,每一个隐喻中的主题和载体之间的关系及其素的性质是相似的,尽管这两个隐喻的具体特征之间没有相似之处。结果表明,当一个隐喻前面有一个隐喻素数时,对隐喻的感觉性的判断会更快,而且会判断隐喻更具感觉。基于这些结果,可以认为,两个表面上不同的隐喻可能在主题和载体的具体特征之外共享一个领域。换言之,隐喻素中的主题和载体的表面或具体特征,以及随后的隐喻句,在这方面没有起到重要作用。隐喻素中一个共享域的激活对后面的隐喻句的理解有着显著的影响。
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