Meyer-Rochow Victor Benno, Kejonen Aimo
Department of Ecology and Genetics, Oulu University, SF-90140 Oulu, Finland.
Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Korea.
Foods. 2020 Feb 11;9(2):172. doi: 10.3390/foods9020172.
It is known that idioms, proverbs, and slogans can become integrated into feelings like irritation, contemptuous attitudes, and even anger and disgust. Idioms making reference to insects, spiders, and other invertebrates occur in all languages, but they convey mostly negative content in people of Western cultural orientation. By analyzing a subgroup of insect and spider idioms related to food, eating, and digestion, the authors suggest that mirror neurons are activated in people that are exposed to the largely unfavorable content of such idioms. This could then lead the listener of such idioms to adopt the kind of negative attitude towards insects that is expressed in the idioms and to project it towards edible species.
众所周知,习语、谚语和口号会融入诸如恼怒、轻蔑的态度,甚至愤怒和厌恶等情感之中。提及昆虫、蜘蛛和其他无脊椎动物的习语在所有语言中都有出现,但在西方文化背景的人群中,它们大多传达负面内容。通过分析一组与食物、饮食和消化相关的昆虫和蜘蛛习语,作者认为,接触到这类习语中大量负面内容的人,其镜像神经元会被激活。这进而可能导致这类习语的听众对昆虫采取习语中所表达的那种负面态度,并将其投射到可食用物种上。