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

我们的研究表明，形容词隐喻，特别是那些被颜色形容词修饰的隐喻，往往会引起消极意义。我们还发现，在名词性隐喻和谓词性隐喻中，形容词性隐喻更容易引起否定意义。我们认为以下发现可能与这一现象有关。我们发现，如果消极意义和积极意义与载体和主题相关联，消极意义倾向于被选择来处理形容词隐喻的意义。我们还发现，许多与通感隐喻相关的词可以根据事件知识分类，在这些事件知识中，我们通常感知到由车辆表示的属性（即，形容词）和由主题表示的对象（即，noun）同时。

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.