情绪效价对二语具体和抽象词汇加工的影响研究

The Influence of Emotional Valence on L2 Concrete and Abstract Words Processing

基于具身认知观,采用词汇判断任务,考察中国英语学习者二语词汇加工中情绪效价和具体性的交互作用,结果发现:第一,情绪效价和具体性的交互效应在反应时上不显著,在正确率上显著,表明情绪效应受词汇具体性调节,相比于抽象词汇,情绪效价对二语具体词汇的正确加工有更大的促进作用;第二,在对具体词汇和抽象词汇的效价进行匹配的情况下,抽象词汇的加工比具体词汇更快,产生抽象性效应。研究结果表明,情绪效价在影响二语具体和抽象词汇加工的方式上可能存在功能上的差异。基于具身认知理论,对研究结果进行了分析与阐释。

Emotional valence is known to influence word processing dependent upon concreteness.Based on the Embodied Cognition Theory,the paper investigates the interaction of emotion and concreteness in the processing of L2 concrete and abstract words in a highly-controlled lexical decision task.The result showed that:(1)The interaction of emotion and concreteness was not significant in reaction time,but significant in accuracy rate,and this emotion advantage was significantly larger in concrete than in abstract words,with the lowest accuracy rate in neutral concrete words;(2)The main effect of concreteness was significant:abstract words were processed faster than concrete words,that is,the reaction time of abstract words was significantly shorter and the accuracy rate was significantly higher than that of concrete words.The findings suggest that emotional valence may be functionally different in the way it affects the processing of L2 concrete and abstract words.The paper analyzes and interprets the research results based on embodied cognition theory.