Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Basing on Theories of Embodied Cognition

Yin, Rong; Dequan, SU; Hao-sheng, YE

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1042.2013.00220

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“…People first recognise visible and tangible elements around them and form a schematic structure of basic experiences on the basis of long‐term perceptual experience. Then, people further understand and represent abstract concepts with the help of an understanding of graphics (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Rong et al, 2013). The results of the present study support this view.…”

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Can orange colour facilitate the processing of happiness? An exploration study on happiness metaphor

Hui,

Kong,

Lin

et al. 2023

Int J Psychol

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Colour is a ubiquitous perceptual stimulus, and theoretical models of colour and psychological functioning posit that colour plays a key role in influencing the behaviour and mental function of a person. One investigation and two experiments investigated the colour metaphor representation of happiness concepts and the mapping mode of the colour metaphor of happiness concepts. A questionnaire was conducted to explore the relationship between colour preference and happiness. Study 2 shows that the identification of happiness words was facilitated more when words were viewed on an orange background than when viewed on a blue background. Study 3 further verifies the links of the connection between colour and happiness at the sentence level, and the orange‐happiness facilitation effect was replicated. These results document a novel influence of colour on emotion recognition processes, where an orange background may facilitate the processing of the concept of happiness and provide support for conceptual metaphor theory and colour‐in‐context theory.

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Can orange colour facilitate the processing of happiness? An exploration study on happiness metaphor

Hui,

Kong,

Lin

et al. 2023

Int J Psychol

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“…A verbal metaphor is a linguistic construction that exemplifies the embodied nature of cognition as verbs generally entail more action content ( Feng and Zhou, 2021 ). The embodied semantic view of metaphors holds that the processing of verbal metaphors relies on sensorimotor simulation, as the verbal metaphors are grounded in the physical body and sensorimotor system ( Barsalou et al, 2003 ; Gibbs, 2006 ; Qu et al, 2013 ; Yin et al, 2013 ). From this perspective, to understand a verbal metaphor such as “The media bent the truth,” we need to simulate the concrete act of “causing to curve.” Wilson and Gibbs (2007) found that people are faster to assess whether or not a sentence is meaningful if they perform or imagine performing a congruent motion before reading a metaphor (e.g., a grasp motion before reading “grasp a concept”), suggesting that comprehension of the metaphorical term “grasp” draws from simulation of its literal meaning.…”

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Is the Processing of Chinese Verbal Metaphors Simulated or Abstracted? Evidence From an ERP Study

Liu

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The theory of embodied semantics holds that verbal metaphors are strongly grounded in sensorimotor experience. Many studies have proven that besides sensorimotor simulation, the comprehension of verbal metaphors also requires semantic abstraction. But the interaction between simulation and abstraction, as well as the time course of metaphorical meaning integration, is not well understood. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether embodiment or abstraction, or both, is employed in the processing of Chinese verbal metaphor. Participants were asked to read subject-verb metaphorical, verb-object metaphorical, literal-concrete and literal-abstract sentences, and the target words were measured at the verb and the object of each sentence. The results revealed that a similar N400 effect was elicited by the target verbs in the verb-object metaphorical and the literal-concrete sentences, and a similar P600/LPC effect was induced by the target verbs in the subject-verb metaphorical and the literal-abstract sentences, reflecting that the verb-object metaphors trigger a simulation process, while the subject-verb metaphors trigger an abstraction process in the verb processing stage. Moreover, the subject-verb metaphors elicited a stronger P600/LPC effect by the target verbs than the verb-object metaphors, but there was no difference of the P600/LPC caused by the target objects between the two kinds of metaphors, revealing that the metaphorical meaning of a subject-verb metaphor is integrated in the verb processing stage, while that of a verb-object metaphor is reanalyzed in the object processing stage. These results suggest that a verbal metaphor is processed both by simulation and abstraction, and the metaphorical meaning is integrated immediately with the unfolding of the sentence meaning. The position where the semantic conflict lies in a sentence (verb vs. object) modulates the time course of metaphor sentence comprehension.

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“…Ścigała and Indurkhya (2016) asked subjects to judge morally ambivalent behavior descriptions at the top and bottom of a piece of paper and found that, compared with the descriptions at the bottom of the page, the subjects considered the descriptions at the top of the page to be more moral. Power can also be represented, in both Chinese and English, with spatial metaphors – that is, the use of spatial properties to construct and understand non-spatial concepts (Yin et al, 2013). Vertical position and size are used particularly often in constructing spatial metaphors for power.…”

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Measurement of the Vertical Spatial Metaphor of Power Concepts Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

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This experimental study explored the use of the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) for understanding the vertical spatial metaphor of power. In the classic IRAP procedure, we formed four sets of stimuli based on the relationship between power words (powerful and powerless words) and vertical position on a computer screen (upper or lower) that were either pro-metaphor (i.e., powerful-high, powerless-low) or anti-metaphor (i.e., powerful-low, powerless-high). Participants were then asked to judge whether the words were consistent or inconsistent with the set of instructions given to them. We found that the D irap scores of powerful words in an above vertical space and powerless words in a below vertical space were higher than zero. Furthermore, the D irap scores of the pro-metaphor stimuli were significantly greater than were those of the anti-metaphor stimuli. Vertical spatial position metaphor of power concepts was verified again by IRAP. These findings suggest that there is an established spatial metaphor for power, which we explain using relational frame theory. It is the first study to our knowledge to explore this metaphor using the IRAP, which overcomes the limitations of paradigms such as the implicit association test, and provides a better understanding of the mechanism of the metaphor.

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Basing on Theories of Embodied Cognition

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Can orange colour facilitate the processing of happiness? An exploration study on happiness metaphor

Can orange colour facilitate the processing of happiness? An exploration study on happiness metaphor

Is the Processing of Chinese Verbal Metaphors Simulated or Abstracted? Evidence From an ERP Study

Measurement of the Vertical Spatial Metaphor of Power Concepts Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

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