'Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive.
'Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0242142
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Matlock T
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作者：
Woodin G;Winter B;Perlman M;Littlemore J;Matlock T
我们报告了一个大规模的，定量调查的手动手势，扬声器执行时，比喻说的数量。我们使用了电视新闻档案-超过200万英语新闻广播的在线数据库-检查681个视频，其中584名发言者使用了短语“微小的数字”，“小数字”，“大数字”或“巨大的数字”，这隐喻了物理尺寸方面的数字量。我们发现，说话人使用的手势反映了一些不同的策略来表达数量的隐喻大小。当提到更大或更小的数量时，说话者更有可能做出以下手势：（1）张开或闭合的手，（2）向外或向内移动，（3）手势之间的距离更大。这些模式通常在包含更多极端形容词（“微小/巨大的数字”）的短语中更为明显。然而，我们并没有发现说话者用双手或单手做手势。我们也没有发现说话者在提到更大或更小的数量时会用右手或左手做手势。总体而言，这项工作支持的主张，隐喻思维参与生产的口头隐喻，描述数值大小。它表明，在以前的实验室实验中观察到的基于大小的数字关联在实验室外的现实生活中是活跃的。
We report a large-scale, quantitative investigation of manual gestures that speakers perform when speaking metaphorically about numerical quantities. We used the TV News Archive–an online database of over 2 million English language news broadcasts–to examine 681 videos in which 584 speakers used the phrase 'tiny number', 'small number', 'large number', or 'huge number', which metaphorically frame numerical quantity in terms of physical size. We found that the gestures speakers used reflect a number of different strategies to express the metaphoric size of quantities. When referring to greater versus lesser quantities, speakers were far more likely to gesture (1) with an open versus closed hand configuration, (2) with an outward versus inward movement, and (3) with a wider distance between the gesturing hands. These patterns were often more pronounced for the phrases containing more extreme adjectives ('tiny/huge number'). However, we did not find that speakers performed two-handed versus one-handed gestures. Nor did we find that speakers performed right-handed versus left-handed gestures, when referring to greater versus lesser quantities. Overall, this work supports the claim that metaphoric thought is involved in the production of verbal metaphors that describe numerical magnitudes. It demonstrates that size-based numerical associations observed in previous lab experiments are active in real-life communication outside the lab.
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