Proverbs: The Extended Conceptual Base and Great Chain Metaphor Theories

Honeck, Richard P.; Temple, Jon G.

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“…The distinction is principled in the sense that the literal meaning plays a necessary role in shaping figurative meaning. Second, unlike idioms (e.g., "spill the beans"), whose meanings are primarily understood via their conventional uses, proverbs can be comprehended even when they are completely unfamiliar (Honeck & Temple, 1994). Because familiarity has been shown to facilitate speed of proverb comprehension (Case, 1991;Turner & Katz, 1990), the ability to manipulate this variable by using novel proverbs is extremely valuable.…”

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The Symmetry Control in Tests of the Standard Pragmatic Model: The Case of Proverb Comprehension

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Welge²,

Temple³

1998

Metaphor and Symbol

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In the standard pragmatic model of figurative language comprehension, literal meanings are constructed first and then used to develop figurative meanings (e.g., Searle, 1979). Although this multistage assumption implies that literal meaning should be comprehended faster than figurative meaning, it is contraindicated by much of the literature. The area has been plagued, however, by a confounding of linguistic materials with experimental conditions. This confounding was bypassed in this study by using the symmetry control procedure, which entails a symmetrical relation between pairs of contexts for utterance pairs that are figuratively synonymous. For proverbs, this means that one proverb is literally related to one context but figuratively related to the other, whereas the other proverb has the converse relation. Participants read short paragraphs that were followed by proverbs and judged whether the proverb was an appropriate restatement of the theme of the paragraph. The reaction time to make this judgment was faster when the proverb was literally rather than figuratively related to the context. These results are consistent with the multistage assumption and the conceptual base theory of proverb comprehension (Honeck, 1997) but substantially weaken Kemper's (1981) conclusion that proverb figurative meanings are understood directly via context-based expectations.Considerable controversy surrounds the issue of how listeners process the intended meanings of figurative language such as proverbs, idioms, and metaphors (Cacciari

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“…Although rejected as the intended meaning, the literal meaning is nevertheless used to help build a figurative meaning (Searle, 1979). These processing stages also appear as part of the extended conceptual base theory of proverb comprehension (Honeck, 1997;Honeck & Temple, 1994;Honeck, Voegtle, Dorfmueller, & Hoffman, 1980).…”

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The Symmetry Control in Tests of the Standard Pragmatic Model: The Case of Proverb Comprehension

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Temple³

1998

Metaphor and Symbol

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“…Cognitive linguists [Lakoff & Turner 1989] argue that the same cognitive mechanism supposedly unites the process of creating proverbs. Proverbs have a common origin in cognitive processes speakers use to formulate and disseminate them, a trait highlighted in the great chain metaphor theory (GCMT) [Honeck & Temple 1994, cited in Moreno 2005. The basic Great Chain concerns the relation of human beings to lower forms of existence; likewise all networks of life and universe exist accordingly to the law of symmetry in nature and mind.…”

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The synergy of basic factors of semantic commonalities in different languages

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2019

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THE SYNERGY OF BASIC FACTORS OF SEMANTIC COMMONALITIES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. Kofi Annan This article surveys the idea of commonalities in cross-cultural communication through examining potential semantic universals in languages, particularly in their proverbsthe smallest verbal folklore genre that vividly reflects the mentality and culture of any nation. At the proverb level, it is possible to identify, 1) basic cognitive universal mechanisms that lead to the creativity of metaphorical thinking; 2) principles of verbalization of common human values in different languages; and 3) statements of effability, translatability, and as a result, mutual understanding between nations. At the global level, diverse human languages and cultures exist and are interconnected in a dialectical unity reflecting both its universal/common and specific features. Based on the idea of Noosphere, i.e., the latent planetary source of any kind of intellectual and spiritual information, this metaphysical perspective enables us to identify the synergy of human universality in all its forms.

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“…A more fundamental issue is whether these structures are inherently metaphorical as Gibbs (1994) and his colleagues claim, or whether nonmetaphorical structures and inferential processes will suffice as others have claimed (e.g., Glucksberg, Brown, & McGlone, 1993;Honeck & Temple, 1994).…”

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“…Gibbs's position is quite controversial and has led to a vigorous debate in the literature (e.g., Gibbs, 1992;Gibbs & Nayak, 1991;Glucksberg, Keysar, & McGlone, 1992;Honeck & Temple 1994;Kreuz and Graesser, 1991). An elegant experimental rebuttal is provided by Glucksberg et al (1993).…”

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Experimental Psycholinguistics and Figurative Language: Circa 1995

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1996

Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

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Proverbs: The Extended Conceptual Base and Great Chain Metaphor Theories

Cited by 29 publications

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The Symmetry Control in Tests of the Standard Pragmatic Model: The Case of Proverb Comprehension

The Symmetry Control in Tests of the Standard Pragmatic Model: The Case of Proverb Comprehension

The synergy of basic factors of semantic commonalities in different languages

Experimental Psycholinguistics and Figurative Language: Circa 1995

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