盲青少年道德概念的垂直空间隐喻——兼论社会环境和生活经验对空间意象图式发展的影响

The Vertical Spatial Metaphor of Visually Impaired Adolescents' Moral Concept:the Effects of Social Environment and Life Experience on the Development of Space Image Schemas

通过2个实验考察盲青少年道德概念的垂直空间隐喻,并与明眼青少年比较。实验1采用语义判断任务考察盲青少年道德概念的垂直空间隐喻,发现道德词出现在空间上方的反应显著快于出现在空间下方,判断道德词反应显著快于判断不道德词。实验2采用相同范式考察明眼青少年在遮眼条件下道德概念的垂直空间隐喻,得到了类似的结果。整个研究表明,汉语道德概念的垂直空间隐喻在听觉通道具有心理现实性,而且受到社会环境和生活经验的影响。盲青少年和明眼青少年在听觉通道中的道德概念垂直空间隐喻不完整,但明眼青少年对不道德词的掌握好于盲青少年。

This study, based on a comparison between visually-impaired adolescents and sighted adolescents in two types of experiments, explores the vertical spatial metaphor of visually-impaired adolescents＇ moral concept. According to Experiment 1, which, based on a semantic decision task, explores the vertical spatial metaphor of visually-impaired adolescents＇ moral concept, the visually-impaired adolescents responded more quickly to moral words than to non-moral words. Experiment 2, which uses the same paradigm to explore the vertical spatial metaphor of blindfolded sighted adolescents＇ moral concept, achieved similar results. The study shows the following： The vertical spatial metaphor of the moral concept in Chinese language exists in the auditory channel and is affected by the social environment and life experience; the visually-impaired adoleseents and the sighted adolescents show an incomplete vertical spatial metaphor of moral concept in the auditory channel, but the latter have a better grasp of non-moral words.