Khatin-Zadeh Omid, Farsani Danyal, Hu Jiehui, Farina Mirko, Banaruee Hassan, Marmolejo-Ramos Fernando
School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 22;14:1139881. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1139881. eCollection 2023.
This study aimed to examine the embodied conceptualization of hope through metaphors. We asked a group of participants to discuss their hopes in a semi-structured interview. We examined the types of hand, head, and eyebrow gestures produced when they were talking about their future hopes. The obtained results showed that when participants talked about their future hopes, they mainly used forward hand gestures, rightward head gestures, and upward eyebrow gestures. Based on these results, it is suggested that various semantic components and emotional associations of hope are metaphorically embodied in different manners in various parts of the body. The future aspect of hope is conceptualized as a forward movement and is embodied as a forward hand gesture. The good or positive emotional aspect associated with future hopes is metaphorically conceptualized as a rightward head gesture or an upward eyebrow gesture. We call this process distributed embodiment of a metaphorical concept. Our proposal is supported by the findings of past studies that have found future is metaphorically embodied as something in front of us (or forward movement), and good is metaphorically embodied as upper space (or upward movement) or right side (or rightward movement).
本研究旨在通过隐喻来考察希望的具身概念化。我们让一组参与者在半结构化访谈中讨论他们的希望。我们考察了他们在谈论未来希望时所产生的手部、头部和眉毛的手势类型。所得结果表明，当参与者谈论他们的未来希望时，他们主要使用向前的手部手势、向右的头部手势和向上的眉毛手势。基于这些结果，有人认为希望的各种语义成分和情感联想以不同方式隐喻地体现在身体的各个部位。希望的未来方面被概念化为向前的运动，并体现为向前的手部手势。与未来希望相关的美好或积极情感方面被隐喻地概念化为向右的头部手势或向上的眉毛手势。我们将这个过程称为隐喻概念的分布式体现。我们的提议得到了过去研究结果的支持，这些研究发现未来被隐喻地体现为我们面前的事物（或向前的运动），而美好被隐喻地体现为上部空间（或向上的运动）或右侧（或向右的运动）。
