比喩理解に関する一研究

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The main purposes of this paper are to assess the semantic spaces or meaning of metaphoric sentences and to compare them with pairs which are composed of two words. Subjects were 77 junior college students. A total of six words was selected on the basis of three idiomatical metaphors: "Time is Money," "Love is Blind," "Life is a Voyage." The measurment of semantic spaces of a single word (for example, "Time," "Voyage,"), a pair of words (for example, "Time-Blind," "Voyage-Money"), and a metaphoric sentence (for example, "Money is Time", "Love is Blind"), was done by the rating method. That is, a factor analysis by the SD-method (Osgood et. al., 1957) was tried, and the following three factors were extracted: Factor I. Evaluation, Factor II. Potency, and Factor III. Activity. These factors were the same as Osgood's findings. The semantic spaces or meaning of the rating stimuli (words, pairs of words, sentences) were mostly explained by these factors. Then, in order to easily compare the semantic spaces with each other, we tried to display them on a triangular graph. And, the following results were obtained: (1) The meaning of a pair of words was affected by either word. (2) The meaning of a metaphoric sentence was mostly affected by either a vehicle word or an interaction between topic and vehicle.
横浜国立大学の論文
1985-10-30