Arenson K
Barrister-at-Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Psychiatr J Univ Ott. 1990 Jun;15(2):100-6.
Many dream reports, which take the form of propositional speech, are more meaningful if understood as metaliteral speech. To achieve this understanding the speech sounds must be decoded according to different linguistic rules than govern propositional speech. The basic rules for metaliteral speech were outlined in a recent paper. Those rules came from empirical observation. This paper proposes that the right hemisphere is dominant for the linguistic activity of metaliteral speech because, in one way or another, the rules all seem to depend on the cognitive use of right hemisphere functions, or sometimes, on the absence of left hemisphere functions. The proposed theory rejects an exclusive role for the right hemisphere in metaliteral behavior. By recognizing the subordinate role of the left, the puzzles are solved of the story-like quality to dream reports and the central role of prosody in decoding metaliteral speech.
许多以命题言语形式呈现的梦境报告，如果被理解为元字面言语，会更有意义。为了达成这种理解，语音必须依据与命题言语不同的语言规则进行解码。元字面言语的基本规则在最近一篇论文中已有概述。那些规则源自实证观察。本文提出，右半球在元字面言语的语言活动中占主导地位，因为这些规则似乎都以某种方式依赖于右半球功能的认知运用，或者有时依赖于左半球功能的缺失。所提出的理论摒弃了右半球在元字面行为中具有排他性作用的观点。通过认识到左半球的从属作用，梦境报告中类似故事的特质以及韵律在解码元字面言语中的核心作用这些谜题便得以解决。
