Civak Tan Pinar, Hancer Hale, Tokgoz-Yilmaz Suna, Arica Akkok Elif, Gokcan Mustafa Kursat
Department of Audiology and Speech Disorders, Institute of Health Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Folia Phoniatr Logop. 2024;76(4):329-339. doi: 10.1159/000534460. Epub 2023 Oct 5.
Idioms are commonly used in everyday language to convey emotions figuratively. The ability to comprehend and use idioms that incorporate emotional elements is crucial for effective communication in daily life, particularly among people with aphasia (PwA). Despite the interest in understanding the process of emotion idiom comprehension in PwA, limited information is available in the literature. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the process of emotion idiom comprehension in people with Wernicke's aphasia (PwWA) and compare it with that of neurotypical individuals.
Sixty idioms were selected based on their syntactic and semantic features, and participants evaluated their imageability. Sixteen idioms were chosen for the study, and two types of tasks were prepared: written idiom-picture matching and written idiom-written text matching. These tasks were administered to two groups: 11 PwWA and 11 neurotypical individuals. The results were analysed in terms of task performance, response type, syntactic and semantic features, and emotional content.
The emotion idiom comprehension scores of the PwWA group were significantly lower than those of the neurotypical participants. PwWA had greater difficulty with the written idiom-picture matching task and tended to rely on the literal meanings of the idioms. There were differences in the semantic features between the two groups. Among the emotion idioms, PwWA showed significant differences in the types of emotions they were able to comprehend.
The findings of this study suggest that regardless of the syntactic content of idioms, PwWA's ability to comprehend emotion idioms is impaired, and they tend to interpret them more literally. This study provides a useful method for assessing emotional idiom comprehension in PwA.
习语在日常语言中普遍用于形象地传达情感。理解和运用包含情感元素的习语的能力对于日常生活中的有效沟通至关重要，尤其是对于失语症患者（PwA）而言。尽管人们对了解失语症患者理解情感习语的过程很感兴趣，但文献中可用的信息有限。因此，本研究旨在调查韦尼克失语症患者（PwWA）理解情感习语的过程，并将其与神经典型个体的过程进行比较。
根据习语的句法和语义特征选择了60个习语，并让参与者评估它们的可想象性。选择了16个习语用于研究，并准备了两种类型的任务：书面习语 - 图片匹配和书面习语 - 书面文本匹配。这些任务被施用于两组：11名韦尼克失语症患者和11名神经典型个体。从任务表现、反应类型、句法和语义特征以及情感内容方面对结果进行了分析。
韦尼克失语症患者组的情感习语理解分数显著低于神经典型参与者。韦尼克失语症患者在书面习语 - 图片匹配任务上有更大的困难，并且倾向于依赖习语的字面意思。两组在语义特征上存在差异。在情感习语中，韦尼克失语症患者在能够理解的情感类型方面表现出显著差异。
本研究结果表明，无论习语的句法内容如何，韦尼克失语症患者理解情感习语的能力都受损，并且他们倾向于更从字面意义上解释它们。本研究为评估失语症患者对情感习语的理解提供了一种有用的方法。
