期刊
SOCIAL COGNITION
卷 39, 期 3, 页码 408-435出版社
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2021.39.3.408
关键词
power; conceptual metaphor; multiple metaphor; metaphor flexibility; attention
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900780]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M661575]
This study investigates the roles of attention and visual features of concrete dimensions in metaphor selection for an abstract concept when multiple dimensions are available. The findings suggest that attention driven by stimulus saliency and features of concrete dimensions can guide metaphor use.
The study examines metaphor selection for the same abstract concept when multiple concrete dimensions are available for use. Drawing on the power concept, four studies investigated the roles of attention and visual features of concrete dimensions in metaphoric mapping. In Studies 1 and 2, two concrete dimensions (vertical space and size) were visually connected to power-related target words simultaneously, and one was salient. Attention driven by stimulus saliency allowed the attended concrete dimension to have a higher activation level and to be used. In Studies 3 and 4, the attended and the non-attended concrete dimensions were presented separately, and the latter was visually associated with power-related target words. This time, the attended dimension did not have an activation advantage, allowing the non-attended dimension to be used for metaphoric mapping simultaneously. The findings suggest that attention is important, but not necessary, and that features of concrete dimensions can guide metaphor use.
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