The processing of metonymy: Evidence from eye movements

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作者
Frisson, S
Pickering, MJ
机构
[1] Univ Antwerp Ufsia, Dept Linguist, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
[2] Univ Glasgow, Dept Psychol, HCRC, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
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10.1037/0278-7393.25.6.1366
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The authors investigated the time course of the processing of metonymic expressions in comparison with literal ones in 2 eye-tracking experiments. Experiment 1 considered the processing of sentences containing place-for-institution metonymies such as the convent in That blasphemous woman had to answer to the convent; it was found that such expressions were of similar difficulty to sentences containing literal interpretations of the same expressions. In contrast, expressions without a relevant metonymic interpretation caused immediate difficulty. Experiment 2 found similar results for place-for-event metonymies such as A lot of Americans protested during: Vietnam, except that the difficulty with expressions without a relevant metonymic interpretation was somewhat delayed. The authors argue that these findings are incompatible with models of figurative language processing in which either the Literal sense is accessed first or the figurative sense is accessed first. Instead, they support an account in which both senses can be accessed immediately, perhaps through a single underspecified representation.
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页码:1366 / 1383
页数:18
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