“上下意象图式”对汉语成语感情色彩加工的影响

The Up-Down Image Schema Affects the Emotion Process of Chinese Idioms

通过两个实验,考察了"上下意象图式"对汉语成语感情色彩加工的影响。实验一发现,成语感情色彩加工存在"隐喻一致效应",褒义的成语呈现在屏幕上方加工得更快,贬义的成语呈现在屏幕下方加工得更快、更准。实验二消除了具体空间信息的影响,发现仅有抽象符号水平的联结,"上"、"下"概念不能影响汉语成语感情色彩的加工。研究结果支持隐喻理论和具身认知观。

Two studies explored the influence of the up-down image schema on emotion process of Chinese idioms.Experiment 1 found that ＂metaphor congruency effect＂ exists in emotion process of the Chinese idioms.Experiment 2 eliminated the influence of spatial cues,with which the links between ＂up＂ and ＂down＂ concepts and emotion were more directly and clearly at notional level.The result showed that emotion process of the Chinese idioms were not affected by ＂up＂ and ＂down＂ concepts when they were only connected at notional level.It suggests that spatial information is necessary to the ＂metaphor congruency effect＂.