2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO COGNITIVE SEMANTICS OF ADJECTIVE METAPHOR
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20520350
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Electro-Communications |
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Principal Investigator |
SAKAMOTO Maki The University of Electro-Communications, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 准教授 (80302826)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
UTSUMI Akira 電気通信大学, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 准教授 (30251664)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 認知意味論 / 形容詞比喩 / 否定的意味喚起 / 意味処理過程 |
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| Research Abstract |
Our study showed that adjective metaphors, especially those modified by color adjectives, tend to evoke negative meanings. We also showed that negative meanings are evoked more frequently for adjective metaphors among nominal and predicative metaphors. We suggested the possibility that the following finds might be related with this phenomenon. We found out that, if negative and positive meanings were associated with vehicles and topics, negative meanings tend to be selected to process meanings of adjective metaphors. We also found out that many words associated with synesthetic metaphors could be classified into those based on event knowledge in which we typically perceived a property denoted by the vehicle (i.e., adjective) and an object denoted by the topic (i.e., noun) simultaneously.
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