Comprehending figurative referential descriptions.
Comprehending figurative referential descriptions.
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理解比喻性的参考描述。
DOI：
10.1037//0278-7393.16.1.56
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1990
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GibbsJr,RW
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GibbsJr,RW
一个常见的方式来指人是与比喻的语言。人们可以用比喻的方式来称呼，比如把一个糟糕的拳击手称为”奶油泡芙”，或者用隐喻的方式来称呼一个海军上将为”黄铜“。“本研究探讨了在理解比喻指称描述语的过程中发生的回指推理。受试者阅读简短的叙述，每一个都以另一个人的文字或比喻描述结尾。紧接在每个文本的最后一行之后，在探针识别任务中呈现描述的前指先行词。三个实验的结果表明，隐喻和转喻指称描述在理解过程中还原了它们的前件。受试者在恢复的先行词的字面指称的描述比在恢复隐喻和转喻的描述。此外，人们更容易理解隐喻指称的描述比他们的转喻。这些研究结果的影响，回指解析和比喻语言理解的理论进行了讨论。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2016阿帕，保留所有权利）
A common way of referring to people is with figurative language. People can be referred to metaphorically, as in calling a terrible boxer" a creampuff," or metonymically, as in calling a naval admiral" the brass." The present studies investigated the anaphoric inferences that occur during comprehension of figurative referential descriptions. Subjects read short narratives, each ending in either a literal or figurative description of another person. Immediately after the last line of each text, the anaphoric antecedent for the description was presented in a probe recognition task. The results of three experiments indicated that metaphoric and metonymic referential descriptions reinstate their antecedents in the course of comprehension. Subjects were faster at reinstating the antecedents for literal referential descriptions than at reinstating metaphoric and metonymic descriptions. Moreover, people understand metaphoric referential descriptions more easily than they do metonymic ones. The implications of these findings for theories of anaphora resolution and figurative language comprehension are discussed.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)