Research On The Difference Of The Time-Course Of Chinese Metaphorical Meanings And Literal Meanings Comprehension

The metaphor is an important language phenomenon of human beings, then with the development of cognitive psychology, metaphor is viewed as human knowledge and thinking way of the external world. Therefore, this study is to further improve the basis of Chinese characters,To carry on the division, the metaphor and the original sentences to join familiarity factors, through two experiments to explore Chinese metaphorical senses and original meaning processing if there is a difference, and based on this research familiarity factor whether had regulation to the metaphorical senses and original meaning of the processing, to provide supporting evidence for the research of Chinese metaphor.Experiment 1 with the reaction time of the study Chinese metaphor and literal comprehension differences in processing, in accordance with the properties of the language material itself familiarity evaluation on metaphor material, experiment using tail word paradigm, random present different conditional sentences, participants task is to determine whether the sentence makes sense. By comparing different sentence types (metaphor and literal comprehension) on the familiarity and correctness of the difference of reaction time and accuracy, For those familiar with the sentence, the metaphorical meaning of processing significantly faster for the processing of the original meaning, and for the novelty of a sentence, the original meaning of the processing is significantly faster in machining of metaphorical meanings. Experimental results support Graded Salience Hypothesis, the semantics of the degree of metaphor meaning and order of the original processing.Experiment 2 to further verify the behavior with the method of the ERP experiment results, and to explore novel metaphor and familiar metaphor sentences on processing the schedule with the literal comprehension of the relationship, so as to investigate subjects Chinese metaphor and literal comprehension processing time is the same process. ERP experimentation results agree with the experimental results, Results are found in metaphorical meanings and literal meanings processing, and this difference is caused by element of familiarity. In the early stage of language processing, In the late stage of processing language and metaphorical meanings and literal processing also showed significant difference, For new sentences, metaphor N400 effect is more apparent than the original sentences,. In addition, metaphorical senses and the original meaning of processing also exist significant differences in the component, to be familiar with the sentence, the component of metaphor sentences effect is more obvious; For new sentences, component of the original sentence effect more apparent.Integrating these two experiments, we found that:the Chinese metaphor and literal comprehension processing calendar differences, and this difference is caused by significant level of semantics. This conclusion supports Giora hypothesis (2003) Graded Salience Hypothesis.(1)For novel sentences, metaphor processing difficulty is larger than the original sentences, the cognitive resources of cost is relatively more.(2)In the process of language in the late, to be familiar with the sentence, metaphor than original sentences will motivate participants more associations in the late processing, and for new sentences, is the original meaning than metaphor sentences in the post processing will cause more rich association.