Sense Ability: Psycho- and Neuro- Linguistic Processing II
Date Issued
2004-05-26
Date
2004-05-26
Author(s)
安可思
DOI
922411H002076ME
Abstract
This past year, we investigated two questions: (1) Are conventional metaphors and novel metaphors processed in different hemispheres? (2) Can we systematically extract conceptual metaphors from large scale corpora to determine their source domain and generate their mapping principles? Neuro-imaging studies can now look at whether conventional and anomalous metaphors are processed in different locations in the brain. We created a block-randomized design in Mandarin Chinese containing three conditions: conventional metaphor sentences, literal sentences, and anomalous metaphor sentences. Right hemisphere activation was found and suggests that remote associations are being formed while reading the anomalous metaphor sentences, and that metaphors will vary in recruitment of cortical function depending on their type. Second, we systematically extract the conceptual metaphors and mapping principles via SUMO and WordNet from both English and Chinese corpora. To sum up, we can better understand the mechanism of processing conceptual metaphors through conducting the neuro-imaging and corpus-based studies. Our project will aid in understanding how the meanings of lexical items are stored and represented in the mental lexicon.
Subjects
fMRI experiment, conceptual metaphor, novel metaphor, mapping principles, SUMO, WordNet
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學語言學研究所
Type
other
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