Interpretive diversity explains metaphor-simile distinction
Interpretive diversity explains metaphor-simile distinction
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DOI：
10.1080/10926480701528071
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Utsumi, Akira
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作者：
Utsumi, Akira
一些属性-适切性，主题-车辆相似性，车辆惯例-最近被用来解释隐喻英里的区别。本文认为，解释的多样性比这些属性更好地解释了隐喻-隐喻的区别。解释多样性是指主题-喻体对的比喻性解释的语义丰富性，它取决于解释中涉及的特征的数量和这些特征的显著性分布的均匀性。释意多样性理论认为，释意多样性更强的对应该更容易通过分类过程来理解，因此对隐喻形式的偏好和相对可理解性应该更大。两个实验表明，正如预测的那样，解释的多样性正相关的隐喻偏好（实验1）和相对的可理解性的隐喻形式相比，的形式（实验2）。此外，在解释隐喻-明喻区别方面，解释多样性比恰当性、相似性和惯例性更重要。
A number of properties-aptness, topic-vehicle similarity, vehicle conventionality-have recently been used to explain a metaphorsi-mile distinction. This paper argues that interpretive diversity better explains a metaphor-simile distinction than these properties. Interpretive diversity refers to the semantic richness of the figurative interpretation of a topic-vehicle pair and is determined depending on both the number of features involved in the interpretation and the uniformity of salience distribution of those features. The interpretive diversity view predicts that interpretively more diverse pairs should be easier to comprehend via a categorization process, and thus the preference for and the relative comprehensibility of the metaphor form should be greater. Two experiments demonstrated that, as predicted, interpretive diversity was correlated positively with metaphor preference (Experiment 1) and with the relative comprehensibility of the metaphor form compared to the simile form (Experiment 2). Furthermore, interpretive diversity was found to be more important in explaining metaphor-simile distinction than aptness, similarity, and conventionality.