Idioms in the World: A Focus on Processing

Frontiers in Psychology

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Elena S. Kulkova¹  Martin H. Fischer¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam

关键词: embodiment;    figurative language;    metaphor;    idiom;    processing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01155

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Recent experiment-based psycho- and neuro-linguistic research brought new insights into languageprocessing mechanisms and meaning representation in the brain. More specifically, it highlightedthe dynamic nature of brain connections and a constant interplay between distributed neuronalcircuits during meaning processing. These developments led to a shift from an amodal view, whichperceives conceptual information activation as parallel to and independent from adjoining neuralactivation in sensorimotor circuits (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008; Meteyard et al., 2012), to theembodied cognition view that highlights the role of sensorimotor experience in the formationof flexible, distributed conceptual representations encompassing features acquired via differentperceptual modalities (Fischer and Zwaan, 2008; Barsalou, 2010). Embodied cognition, therefore,suggests that conceptual knowledge and, consequently, semantic knowledge are grounded in bodilyexperience and situated actions (Glenberg et al., 2008; Pulvermüller, 2013). However, currentlythere is a tendency toward perceiving embodied and disembodied views not as mutually exclusivedistinct theories, but as bridging a gap between them. The hub and spoke model and the sensorymotor model demonstrate attempts to integrate the amodal and modality-specific views (seeMahon, 2015).

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