Khatin-Zadeh Omid, Farsani Danyal, Hu Jiehui, Eskandari Zahra, Zhu Yanjiao, Banaruee Hassan
School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.
Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Jul 13;13(7):585. doi: 10.3390/bs13070585.
This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral, neuroimaging, and corpus studies. After summing up the findings of these studies, it is concluded that metaphorical embodiment is supported by these three lines of research. This is followed by a review of a number of studies that have measured sensorimotor and action effector strengths of various concepts. Then, the idea of sensorimotor and action effector strength of concepts is linked to metaphorical embodiment to present the main idea of the paper. Based on the findings of studies that have measured sensorimotor and action effector strengths of concepts, it is suggested that the degree of involvement of sensorimotor systems in mental simulation of metaphoric actions may not be at the same level in all metaphors. It depends on the sensorimotor strength of the base of the metaphor in various modalities. If the base of a metaphor has a high degree of perceptual strength in a certain modality, that modality plays the most important role in the processing of that metaphor, while other modalities take less important roles. In other words, depending on the sensorimotor strengths of the base of a metaphor in various modalities, those modalities have various levels of importance in the processing of that metaphor. If the base of the metaphor is weak in all modalities, modal resources can come into play to process that metaphor.
本文对提供了支持隐喻具身化证据的研究进行了综述。这些研究分为行为研究、神经成像研究和语料库研究三类。在总结这些研究的结果后，得出结论：这三类研究支持了隐喻具身化。接下来回顾了一些测量各种概念的感觉运动和动作效应强度的研究。然后，将概念的感觉运动和动作效应强度的观点与隐喻具身化联系起来，以呈现本文的主要观点。基于测量概念的感觉运动和动作效应强度的研究结果，表明感觉运动系统在隐喻动作心理模拟中的参与程度在所有隐喻中可能并非处于同一水平。这取决于隐喻基础在各种模态下的感觉运动强度。如果隐喻的基础在某种模态下具有高度的感知强度，那么该模态在该隐喻的处理中起最重要的作用，而其他模态起的作用较小。换句话说，根据隐喻基础在各种模态下的感觉运动强度，这些模态在该隐喻的处理中具有不同程度的重要性。如果隐喻的基础在所有模态下都很弱，模态资源就可以发挥作用来处理该隐喻。
