Positive and negative effects of mother tongue knowledge on the interpretations of figurative expressions

母语知识对比喻表达解释的积极和消极影响

• 批准号: 18520469
• 负责人: AZUMA Masumi
• 金额: $ 2.34万
• 依托单位: Kobe Design University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2006 至 2007
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-18520469/
• 关键词: figurative expressions; metaphors; idioms; schemas; cognition; image schemas; semantic fields; the expansions of meanings; language and culture; vocabulary; vocabulary knowledge

This research investigates the effects of knowledge originated in or generated from the mother tongue on the understanding of figurative expressions. A test, Metaphor Cognition Test, was designed to obtain quantitative data and administered on Japanese EFL students and native English speakers to investigate the aspects of figurative interpretations and the differences in interpretations by different mother tongue users. The test consisted of a descriptive type test (40 items) and a multiple choice type test (19 items), and the items were featured with the expressions having shared concepts/wordings and the, expressions originated in English and Japanese. To collect qualitative information, interviews with a number of participants took place.The assumption was that the interpreters would activate their cognitive processes, for example, resorting to the knowledge of their mother tongue, utilizing schemas, and/or logical thinking as interpretation strategies; however, these cognitive proc … More esses might have ambivalent (positive and negative) effects on certain test items of the Metaphor Cognition Test.The quantitative and qualitative investigation indicates that the positive effects of mother tongue knowledge are found on the majority of the items having shared concepts/wordings between Japanese and English while ambivalent effects are found on the items of the same/similar wordings with different concepts/meanings between the languages. A unique phenomenon in the latter is that there is a blurred area, where a branching-off occurs, especially in a non-native language. The branching-off leads to a correct or incorrect interpretation. If it is true to the original meaning (usually as an idiom or a proverb), it creates no/few problems, however, if it takes a branching-off not commonly used in the original language, though figurative, logical thinking is appropriate, it is problematic or a failure in that language. Here specific cultural elements involve greatly. We should be cautious about these phenomena in our language teaching. Less

本研究旨在探讨来源于母语或由母语产生的知识对比喻表达理解的影响。本研究设计了一个名为隐喻认知测验的测试，以获得定量数据，并对日本EFL学生和英语本族语者进行了测试，以调查不同母语使用者在隐喻理解方面的差异。该测试包括描述性类型测试（40个项目）和多项选择类型测试（19个项目），项目的特点是具有共同概念/措辞的表达以及源自英语和日语的表达。为了收集定性的信息，我们对一些参与者进行了访谈，假设口译员会激活他们的认知过程，例如，诉诸母语知识，利用图式和/或逻辑思维作为口译策略;然而，这些认知过程， ...更多信息 定量和定性的研究表明，母语知识对日语和英语中具有相同概念/词汇的大部分项目具有正向效应，而对具有相同/相似词汇但概念/意义不同的项目具有反向效应。在后一种语言中，一个独特的现象是有一个模糊的区域，在那里发生了分支，特别是在非母语中。分支导致正确或不正确的解释。如果它是真实的原始意义（通常作为一个成语或谚语），它没有/很少的问题，但是，如果它采取了一个分支，而不是通常使用的原始语言，虽然比喻，逻辑思维是适当的，它是有问题的或失败的语言。这里具体的文化因素涉及很大。我们在语言教学中应该对这些现象持谨慎态度。少

项目成果

How does knowledge of the mother tongue effect the interpretation of figurative expressions-culture,schemas and figurative expressions-

母语知识如何影响比喻表达的解释——文化、图式和比喻表达——

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Akamatsu;N.;赤松信彦;東 眞須美;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma
• 通讯作者: Masumi Azuma

How does knowledge of the mother tongue affect the interpretation of figurative expressions?-culture,schemas and figurative expressions

母语知识如何影响比喻表达的解释？-文化、图式和比喻表达

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Akamatsu;N.;赤松信彦;東 眞須美;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma
• 通讯作者: Masumi Azuma

Establishing the standards of metaphorical competence in EFL situations

建立英语情境中隐喻能力的标准

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Akamatsu;N.;赤松信彦;東 眞須美;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma;Masumi Azuma
• 通讯作者: Masumi Azuma

英語にナマ直訳した日本語の比喩は英語のネイティブスピーカーに通じるか

从字面上翻译成英语的日语隐喻对于以英语为母语的人来说有意义吗？

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Akamatsu;N.;赤松信彦;東 眞須美
• 通讯作者: 東 眞須美

Benefits and risks of the effects of mother tongue knowledge on understanding figurative expressions

母语知识对理解比喻表达的影响的好处和风险

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Akamatsu;N.;赤松信彦;東 眞須美;Masumi Azuma
• 通讯作者: Masumi Azuma