Mental Representations Of Temperature And Emotion In Language Comprehension

Embodied philosophy generated in the 1970s and 1980s, the study of the language comprehension has being into a new era. On the basis of embodied philosophy, Zwaan proposed the Immersed Experiencer Frame(IEF). The Immersed Experiencer Frame(IEF) has the basic view : In nature language comprehension is empirical, by the language input as clues, through the integration and sequence of reality empirical trace, described the events as immersive experience. The process of language comprehension is based on perception characterization and action representation of the real experience of consciousness and action, then, the one who understand is a experiencer to experience the scene, the process of comprehension is experience the described scene process.In this study, subject is college students. Because the study is in text, as a special environment, the basis of sentence– pictures matching paradigm, using sentences - words matching investigate the psychological representation relationship between temperature and emotion. With temperature has properties of continuous variables, so pick two extreme as experimental material. Reference previous studies, respectively choose basic emotional anger and sadness as matching conditions. Three experiments is designed in this study to discuss the relationship: In the first experiment , emotional text as a clue, examine the subjects'action of temperature words detection, whether the action in matching conditions is significant shorter than in non- match condition. In the second experiment, in temperature text as a clue, examine the subjects'action of emotin words detection, whether the action in matching conditions is significant shorter than in non- match condition.. In the last experiment, a further investigation is done. High temperature as a startup condition weather can affect the behavior of the individual.The results show that: (1)Anger can promote the recognition of high temperature vocabulary, sadness can promote the recognition of low temperature vocabulary, supported the language comprehension experience view. (2)High temperature discourse can promote the subjects recognition the emotion of anger, low temperature discourse can promote the subjects recognition the emotion of sadness, in a certain degree support that metaphor is bidirectional. (3)High temperature as a start-up condition, it can increase individual aggression behavior.