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Psycholinguistic Interpretation of Metaphor

Author: HuangBo
Tutor: FengGuangHua
School: China University of Geosciences
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Metaphor Psycholinguistics Explain Language Acknowledge
CLC: H0
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2005
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Abstract

The metaphor is a means to describe something with other things, it is a basic human cognitive tool. Metaphor for the long-term development of language and build human consolidate and extend their own concept, human relations, and human understanding of the world are playing an extremely important role. Metaphor research to attract the interest of a large number of experts and scholars, and they come from different disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and literature. The paper pointed out that the metaphor to explain the process of psycholinguistics, feature identification and description and metaphor comprehension of metaphor analysis. Lakoff and Johnson's theory is revolutionary, their theory many concept reduced to the basic concept of experience covers the entire human cognitive domains through metaphor. They proposed a new theory of the organizational structure of the human conceptual system, that \Among metaphor Psycholinguistic Interpretation process, it is necessary to clarify the method to identify various language metaphor metaphor metaphor as a psychological phenomenon, different levels of analysis and the identification process or language metaphor. On this basis, this is especially detailed show Psycholinguistic Interpretation of the metaphor in the language spoken material collected. Metaphor characteristics embodied in the language of metaphor understanding provides important psychological language 'learning mechanism. Therefore this study the the Black interaction of the validity of the theory. First experiment is second experiment is found and confirmed by using the measurement methods and identify the tasks to what metaphor metaphor processing features in order to discover and confirm what metaphors features activated in the process of metaphor comprehension; activated. Among metaphor Psycholinguistic Interpretation process research modifying features and non-modified feature presentation is also very important in the process of metaphor comprehension. So this paper the other two experiments is built on the basis of human memory model and modified features and non-modified features distinguishing the same time the use of the modified characteristics and non-modified feature dichotomy to illustrate abstract concepts and asked the difference between the specific concept. Finally, we come to the following four conclusions: (1) There is some kind of theory not yet able to fully explain the various metaphors; (2) in metaphor identification process should be a clear distinction between the interpretation of metaphor theoretical level and operating level: ( 3) most of the characteristics of mankind in the process of processing metaphor inspired show; (4), while most of them showing a modification characteristics.

Psycholinguistic Interpretation of Metaphor

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