Abstract

Previous studies have shown semantic knowledge plays a more important role in understanding conventional metaphors than novel metaphors; analogical thinking plays a more important role in understanding visual metaphors than verbal metaphors. However, they only have studied the effects of analogical thinking and semantic knowledge on the comprehension of the one-single-side metaphors, not mixed ones, including the visual conventional metaphor vs. the visual novel metaphor, the conventional visual metaphor vs. the conventional verbal metaphor and etc. In the current study we assessed the effects of analogical thinking and semantic knowledge on the comprehension of different mixed metaphors by four comparative experiments. 40 children aged from 12 to 14 were separated into two groups and they did the comparative experiments in two separate rooms. The two main methods are the visual metaphor test – MTT and the metaphoric questionnaire. Our results showed that analogical thinking and semantic knowledge play different roles to some extent in the comprehension of different mixed metaphors. 

Keywords: analogical thinking; semantic knowledge; visual metaphor; verbal metaphor; conventional metaphor; novel metaphor

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

1. Introduction-１

2. Methods-４

2.1 Participants-４

2.2 Material……-４

2.2.1 The visual metaphor test – MTT４

2.3. Procedure.５

2.3.1 Experiment 1 the conventional visual metaphor vs. the conventional verbal metaphor５

2.3.2 Experiment 2 the novel visual metaphor vs. the novel verbal metaphor.６

2.3.3 Experiment 3 the verbal conventional metaphor vs. the verbal novel metaphor.６

2.3.4 Experiment 4 the visual conventional metaphor vs. the visual novel metaphor ７ 

3. Results-８

3.1. Results of Experiment 1 the conventional visual metaphor vs. the conventional verbal metaphor.８

3.2. Results of Experiment 2 the novel visual metaphor vs. the novel verbal metaphor.９

3.3. Results of Experiment 3 the verbal conventional metaphor vs. the verbal novel metaphor９

3.4. Results of Experiment 4 the visual conventional metaphor vs. the visual novel metaphor１０

4. Discussion１１.

References１２