The Relationship Between the Content and the Form of Metaphorical Statements  

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Xu, Xu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 39 no. 2 (Apr. 2010), page 165-178.
Topik: Quality of metaphorical pairing · Similarity · Grammatical form · Online interpretation · Sentence processing
Fulltext: vol. 39 issue 2 April 2010. p. 165 - 178.pdf (193.4KB)

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Recent research suggests that the quality of a metaphorical topic-vehicle pairing should be the determinant to the choice of a proper grammatical form, nominal metaphor versus simile. Two studies examined the relationship between the quality of the content of a metaphorical statement and its grammatical form. Study 1 showed that the two grammatical forms did not differ in aptness when the quality of topic-vehicle pairs and the conventionality of vehicles, a factor associated with the quality of metaphorical expressions, were controlled. With an online comprehension measure, Study 2 found that high quality metaphorical pairings were easier to process than low quality metaphorical pairings in both the metaphor form and the simile form. For high quality metaphorical pairings, information related to both the topics and the vehicles was highly activated at an early stage of processing. The relations among factors involved in the interpretive process of metaphorical language are discussed.

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