The aesthetic paradox in processing conventional and non-conventional metaphors: A reaction time study
The aesthetic paradox in processing conventional and non-conventional metaphors: A reaction time study
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处理传统和非常规隐喻的美学悖论：反应时间研究
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10.1075/ssol.1.2.03chr
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2011
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Norbert Groeben
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作者：
U. Christmann;Lena Wimmer;Norbert Groeben
本研究主要探讨传统隐喻和非传统隐喻加工过程中认知努力与审美情感评价的关系。我们假设，在处理非常规隐喻时，增加的认知负荷——通常被认为是压力——会得到积极的评价。我们把这种矛盾的悬疑称为“审美悖论”。审美悖论在两个不同加工需求程度的研究中得到检验。在研究1（低加工需求）中，参与者（N = 40）阅读（非）传统隐喻，判断两种隐喻释义的充分性并评估自己的解释过程。在研究2（高加工需求）中，除了参与者（N = 40）评估一个隐喻释义的适当性外，应用了相同的程序。两个实验的结果都证实了非常规隐喻比常规隐喻需要更长的阅读时间和更长的处理时间，并且它们证实了假设的悖论效应：如果找到令人满意的解释，那么在处理非常规隐喻时认知努力的增加就会得到积极的评价。
This study focuses on the relationship between cognitive effort and aesthetic-emotional evaluation in the processing of conventional and non-conventional metaphors. We postulate that an increased cognitive load — which is normally perceived as stressful — is evaluated positively when processing non-conventional metaphors. We have called this contradictory suspense ‘aesthetic paradox’. The aesthetic paradox was tested in two studies that differed in degree of processing demand. In study 1 (low processing demand) participants (N = 40) read (non-)conventional metaphors, judged the adequacy of two metaphor paraphrases and assessed their own interpretation process. In study 2 (high processing demand) the same procedure was applied with the exception that participants (N = 40) evaluated the appropriateness of one metaphor paraphrase. The results of both experiments confirm that non-conventional metaphors require longer reading and longer processing times than conventional metaphors, and they confirm the postulated paradoxical effect: the increase of cognitive effort in processing non-conventional metaphors is evaluated positively, provided that a satisfactory interpretation is found.