Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1932506
Heng Li, Yu Cao
ABSTRACT Across many languages and cultures, people tend to explicitly and implicitly associate brightness with God and darkness with the Devil. In the current research, we used an explicit Brightness-Godassociation test(Study 1) and an implicit reaction-time task (Study 2) to investigate religious cognitions in Bai people, an ethnic minority group in southwest China. While Bai people were faster to categorize Devil-related words appearing in a black font versuswhite font, they showed no significant differences in categorizing God-related words when the words presented in a white font versus black font, consistent with their explicit conventions that link“God”with both“brightness”and “darkness”. This pattern of God representations seems to contrast sharply with many other metaphorical associations documented to date. These findings are consistent with the worship of Mahakala (known as “Black Sky god”) in Benzhuism, a local religion in Bai people. Such results cannot be accounted for by valence correspondence such as both concepts of darkness and God having positive meanings. This is because Bai people demonstrate a strong preference for the color white versus black in their culture. We provide the first empirical evidence that light-dark metaphors in religious representations can show variations across cultures.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1921557
Alper Kumcu
ABSTRACT Linguistic synesthesia (or synesthetic/intrafield/crossmodal metaphor) refers to crossmodal instances in which expressions in different sensory modalities are combined as in the case of sweet (taste) melody (hearing). Ullmann was among the first to show that synesthetic transfers seem to follow a potentially universal hierarchy that goes from the so-called “lower” (i.e., touch, taste and smell) to “higher” senses (i.e., hearing and sight). Several studies across languages, cultures, domains and text types seem to support the hierarchy in linguistic synesthesia despite some crosslinguistic differences and varying explanations . To extend results to an underrepresented language and thus, to test the universality of the crossmodal hierarchy, 5,693 token cases of linguistic synesthesia in written and spoken Turkish were investigated using a general-purpose, large corpus. Token, type, and hapax legomena frequencies showed that although three backward and thus, hierarchy-inconsistent transfers (i.e., from taste to touch, from sight to smell and from sight to hearing) were more frequent than their hierarchy-consistent counterparts, forward transfers in the canonical direction were more frequent overall than the backward transfers in Turkish. We conclude that Turkish linguistic synesthesia complies with the hierarchy as a descriptive generalization. Results are discussed in comparison to the crossmodal use of sensory words in other languages.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1913740
Samantha Ford, J. Littlemore, David J. Houghton
ABSTRACT This paper describes a study conducted in collaboration with a marketing agency and a nonprofit organization (NPO) providing regional sexual health services, which included advice on, and testing for, sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The study investigated the relative effectiveness of different formulations of double entendres on appeal, humor, the likelihood of social media engagement, and intention to seek more information about STIs. Advertisements containing double entendres were significantly more appealing and humorous if: (1) the grammatical formulation did not cue the intended meaning; (2) the double entendre involved a creative metaphorical expression; and (3) the double entendre referred to the middle part of the sexual scenario, referring to action rather than intent or result. Participants’ ratings varied very little according to their age, gender, and education. However, a qualitative investigation of the free-text responses revealed that there was some variation in the types of interpretations that were offered by participants depending on their age, gender, and education. The marketing agency incorporated our findings into their live campaign, which resulted in a notable increase in: (a) website traffic and social media engagement; (b) STI home-testing kits ordered; and (c) STI kits returned for testing, compared with previous campaigns.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.2006046
Dusan Stamenkovic, Katarina S. Milenkovic, Nicholas Ichien, K. Holyoak
ABSTRACT Using poetic metaphors in the Serbian language, we identified systematic variations in the impact of fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of metaphors that varied in rated aptness and familiarity. Overall, comprehension scores were higher for metaphors that were high rather than low in aptness, and high rather than low in familiarity. A measure of crystalized intelligence was a robust predictor of comprehension across the full range of metaphors, but especially for those that were either relatively unfamiliar or more apt. In contrast, individual differences associated with fluid intelligence were clearly found only for metaphors that were low in aptness. Superior verbal knowledge appears to be particularly important when trying to find meaning in novel metaphorical expressions, and also when exploring the rich interpretive potential of apt metaphors. The broad role of crystalized intelligence in metaphor comprehension is consistent with the view that metaphors are largely understood using semantic integration processes continuous with those that operate in understanding literal language.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1910952
Juanjuan Wang, Yi Sun
ABSTRACT Speakers of different languages perceive time differently depending on various factors such as age, pace of life, religion, time of day, and even pregnancy. In recent years, studies have shown that this is the case even within one same language community. This article presents research showing that doctors in China differ in their perception of time, based on their specific background training, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) or Western medicine (WM), even when both categories speak the same mother tongue. An initial questionnaire showed that TCM doctors were significantly more vertically oriented than WM doctors. To test these findings’ generalizability, we designed a spatial priming experiment (using horizontal and vertical pictures as priming stimuli) to obtain reaction time and accuracy of the doctors’ response on horizontal and vertical questions. TCM doctors showed significantly shorter reaction times and higher accuracy rates than WM doctors when answering vertical questions. These results confirmed the findings of our first survey. Overall, this study provides support for the hypothesis that background training affects the perception of time succession.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1905486
Joanna Łozińska
ABSTRACT The article presents an analysis of metaphorical names for yoga postures (called asanas) as well as other verbal and verbo-gestural means of communication used by yoga teachers to describe these complex bodily postures. The difficulty of describing the intricacies of subjective bodily experience has been noted in the previous studies which, for example, deal with the metaphorical language, who analyze the metaphorical language and metaphorical gestures used by dance teachers to convey information about the subjective experience of bodily balance while dancing tango and ballet. A common feature of all the metaphors discussed in the present paper is mental imagery, which is mapped from source to target. The study shows firstly that metaphor is an important didactic tool used by yoga teachers to instruct practitioners about complicated postures; secondly, that the images permeating verbal and verbo-gestural metaphors used for didactic purposes during a yoga class are a mixture of static, dynamic and image-schematic elements. It is assumed that these are mainly image schemas underlying source and target domains of metaphors used in yoga discourse that allow for the conveyance of information on the intricacies and logic of asanas.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1899751
Lacey Okonski
Cognitive scientists who study poetry and aesthetics often write with great craftmanship (e.g. Gibbs, 2017, p. 14; or Young, 2014). In her recent book, The Poem as Icon (2020), Margaret Freeman does not disappoint in this capacity. She writes: “Just as the far reaches of the visible and the invisible worlds are experienced through scientific knowledge, so are they experienced through artistic feeling. Scientists and poets are not pursuing different realities: they are pursuing them from different perspectives.” In introducing the topic, she rightly puts forward the claim that art is not beyond scientific reach. Indeed, there are increasingly publications coming forth on cognitive poetics (inter alia Brône & Vandaele, 2009; Csabi, 2018; Lakoff & Turner, 1989; Stockwell, 2020; Tsur, 2008; Turner, 2006, 2014; see also the reviewed book’s bibliography). This is also the case for other areas in cognition and aesthetics such as dance (Bläsing, Puttke, & Schack, 2012; Fernandez, Evola, & Ribeiro, in preparation), music (Pearce & Rohrmeier, 2012), and art (Solso, 1994). These studies reveal the human experience of aesthetic objects and also contribute to basic science by confirming that cognitive aesthetics are an integral aspect of our cognitive system. Freeman begins the book by exploring the roles of icon, semblance, metaphor, and schema and concludes with her arguments for the poem as icon and a theory of cognitive aesthetics. Her work appeals to an interdisciplinary audience including philosophy from the classics to the phenomenologists, poets from Emily Dickinson to Sylvia Plath, and those doing the empirical and theoretical work in this area including Raymond Gibbs, Zoltán Kövecses, Reuven Tsur, and Mark Turner to name a few. This book does not intend to provide a comprehensive overview of all of the studies in the area of cognitive poetics; it aims to build a cognitive theory of poetics and it is successful at advancing a theory of poem as icon. In the introductory section, Freeman argues that “taste, beauty, and pleasure are produced by, not constitutive of, the aesthetic faculty” (Freeman, 2020, p. 12). She situates the goal of poetic cognition as providing an explanatory methodology for poetic effects and a theoretical basis for poetic evaluation. The terminology gives her approach a more dynamic tone, such as preferring the term minding rather than mind, proffering a reading that the mind and the associated faculties, including the aesthetic faculty, are an emergent quality. This proposition is compatible with dynamic theories of cognition and with the cognitive view of embodied subjectivity that Freeman alludes to. The idea that our felt subjective bodily experiences inform our cognition on higher level cognitive tasks, such as reading poetry, is a modern theoretical position (Gibbs, 2005) although it may date back to pre-Cartesian times (pp.141–142). Poet Elizabeth Acevedo once described the power of poetry: “I think poetry is amazing becau
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1893606
Kristina Š. Despot, M. Sekulić Sović, M. Vilibić, N. Mimica
ABSTRACT It is well evidenced that patients with schizophrenia demonstrate impairments of figurative language comprehension. Their metaphor production has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention. We, therefore, studied metaphor production in patients with schizophrenia as compared to non-psychiatric controls. Qualitative case analysis on three levels (linguistic, conceptual, and discourse) was performed on controlled and semi-controlled speech. Balanced and comparable speech materials were obtained using transcribed interviews based on the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale and on pictorial stimuli. Transcriptions were annotated for linguistic metaphors and for types and levels of conceptual metaphors. Additionally, a metaphor-led discourse analysis was performed. Target- and control-group parameters were analyzed and compared. We found that the percentage of linguistic metaphors in the patients’ speech was remarkably similar to the percentage of linguistic metaphors in the controls’ speech. We did not find any significant impairment in the production of primary or complex metaphors, general or specific metaphors, novel or conventional metaphors, metonymy, irony, or hyperbole, nor in the metaphor framing of discourse episodes̶, the production of figurative language appears intact in first-episode schizophrenia. Having in mind how clinically heterogeneous schizophrenia is, our qualitative results call for quantitative examination and additional scrutiny of the topic.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1907185
Hui-Ling Yang, J. Nick Reid, A. Katz, Dandi Li
ABSTRACT In two experiments, we examined whether POWER is embodied in terms of horizontal forward and backward movement using an action compatibility task. Participants were asked to categorize power-related words (e.g., “boss”, “intern”) aseither “powerful” or “powerless” as quickly and accurately as possible. In the compatible condition, the response to indicate that the word was “powerful” involved a forward movement and the response to indicate “powerless” involved a backward movement. Under incompatible conditions, these responses were reversed (“powerful”-backward/“powerless”-forward). In both experiments, participants were faster to categorize the words when the response actions were compatible than incompatible. Furthermore, this compatibility effect was observed for both Chinese (Mandarin) speakers categorizing Chinese words and English speakers categorizing English words. These data suggest that the psychological reality of a “POWER IS MOVING FORWARD” conceptual metaphor in both language groups, which we argue is based on an extension of the “SOURCE-PATH-GOAL” schema.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1901556
K. Li, Shukang Li
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