Identifying and appreciating poetic metaphor
Identifying and appreciating poetic metaphor
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识别和欣赏诗意隐喻
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10.1515/jlse.2002.011
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2002
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R. Gibbs
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本文探讨了受试者对诗歌中隐喻的欣赏。报告了两项关于介入性定向隐喻识别任务(与动词识别任务和重读任务的效果进行比较和对比)在诗歌隐喻欣赏中的作用和效果的实证研究的结果。这些研究表明，有意识地识别诗歌隐喻提高了人们对这些短语的审美欣赏和情感反应，而不是普遍存在的一种直觉，即拆解文本来分类不同的隐喻会干扰一个人阅读隐喻的乐趣。任何关于隐喻识别增强对诗意陈述的欣赏和情感反应的解释都必须是推测的，但一个值得探讨的假设是，实际上将一个陈述视为一种隐喻(作为一种语言类型)会提醒读者注意到丰富的跨域映射的可能性，这会立即引导读者寻找其中一些丰富的隐喻意义。这些研究的另一个有趣的发现是，隐喻识别似乎在一定程度上提高了对诗歌隐喻的欣赏和对它们的情感反应。数据中的这种相关性表明，读者对隐喻的审美判断可能至少在一定程度上受到他们感受到的具体化的情感运动的影响。根据这一观点，人们对隐喻的审美欣赏，也许还有其他任何艺术品，都不是纯粹的智力行为，而是植根于反复出现的具体化行为模式，这可能是思维和语言使用的许多方面的基础。
This article concerns subjects' appreciation of metaphors in poems. It reports the findings of two empirical studies on the role and effect of an intervening directed metaphor-identification task (compared and contrasted with the effect of verb-identification and read-again tasks) in the subsequent appreciation of poetic metaphor. These studies demonstrate that consciously identifying poetic metaphors enhances people's aesthetic appreciation of and emotional reaction to these phrases, contrary to the widespread intuition that picking apart texts to classify different tropes interferes with one's pleasure in reading metaphors. Any explanation of why metaphor identification enhances appreciation of and emotional reaction to poetic statements must be speculative, but one hypothesis worth pursuing is that actually recognizing a statement as a metaphor (as a linguistic type) alerts readers to the very possibility of rich cross-domain mappings, which immediately leads readers to seek out some of these rich metaphoric meanings. A further interesting finding from these studies is that metaphor identification appears to enhance both appreciation of poetic metaphors, and emotional reactions to them, to the same degree. This correlation in the data suggests that readers' judgements of aesthetic appreciation of metaphors may be shaped, at least to some significant degree, by their felt sense of embodied, emotional movement. Under this view, people's aesthetic appreciation of metaphor, and perhaps any other artwork, is not a purely intellectual act, but has its roots in recurring patterns of embodied action that may underlie many aspects of thought and language use.