认知视域下隐喻加工性别差异研究的回顾与展望

Gender Differences in Metaphor Processing from Cognitive Perspective:In Social and Neural Dimensions

文章以认知语言学近年来内部出现的社会和神经两大转向为基本理论框架,对隐喻加工中出现的性别差异进行阐释。从社会认知角度描写了隐喻使用和加工过程中的性别差异,并采取神经科学中的最新实证成果对差异产生的生理基础和神经机制进行了解释。证据表明,男女性在社会认知、大脑结构和神经基础方面均有不同,由此造成了二者在隐喻加工中存在明显的差异。针对实验范式、分析方法和考察视角中存在的缺陷,提出解决办法和应对措施,以期为未来研究发展提供新的启示。

Based on the theoretical framework of social and neural dimensions internal to cognitive linguistics in recent years, the paper sheds some light on gender differences in metaphor processing. It first portrays gender differences in metaphor use and processing from social cognitive perspective and then explicates the physiological and neural mechanisms that give rise to the differences according to the latest empirical findings in neuroscience. Evidence shows that men and women differ in social cognition, brain structure and neural basis, which results in the noted differences in metaphor processing. Aiming at the flaws in the existent experiment paradigms, analytic methods and perspectives, the paper concludes by providing some solutions, remedies and suggestions for further research.