A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO COGNITIVE SEMANTICS OF ADJECTIVE METAPHOR

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Our study showed that adjective metaphors, especially those modified by color adjectives, tend to evoke negative meanings. We also showed that negative meanings are evoked more frequently for adjective metaphors among nominal and predicative metaphors. We suggested the possibility that the following finds might be related with this phenomenon. We found out that, if negative and positive meanings were associated with vehicles and topics, negative meanings tend to be selected to process meanings of adjective metaphors. We also found out that many words associated with synesthetic metaphors could be classified into those based on event knowledge in which we typically perceived a property denoted by the vehicle (i.e., adjective) and an object denoted by the topic (i.e., noun) simultaneously.