Internal states, e.g., emotions, cognitive states, or desires, are often verbalized by figurative means, in particular by embodied metaphors involving human senses, such as touch, taste, and smell. The present paper presents a database for German metaphorical expressions conveying internal states with human senses as their source domains. 168 metaphorical expressions from the source domains of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and temperature combined with literal equivalents were collected and rated by 643 adults. The agreement between the metaphor and an equivalent literal expression, as well as emotional valence, arousal, and familiarity values were assessed using a 7-point Likert scale. Between the metaphorical expressions and their equivalents, familiarity, but not valence or arousal differed significantly while agreement ratings indicated high similarity in meaning. The novel database offers carefully controlled stimuli that can be used in both empirical metaphor research and research on internal state language. Using part of the stimuli in a sentence completion experiment revealed a significant preference for literal over metaphorical expressions that cannot be attributed to higher familiarity levels.

内部状态，例如情绪、认知状态或欲望，通常通过比喻的方式来表达，特别是通过涉及人类感官的具体隐喻，如触觉、味觉和嗅觉。本文提出了一个德语隐喻表达数据库，以人类感官作为其源域来传达内部状态。643 名成年人收集了来自视觉、听觉、嗅觉、味觉、触觉和温度等源域的 168 种隐喻表达，并结合文字等价物进行了评分。使用 7 点李克特量表评估隐喻和等效文字表达之间的一致性，以及情绪效价、唤醒和熟悉度值。在隐喻表达及其等价物之间，熟悉度，但效价或唤醒没有显着差异，而一致性评级表明意义高度相似。新颖的数据库提供了精心控制的刺激，可用于经验隐喻研究和内部状态语言研究。在句子完成实验中使用部分刺激揭示了对文字而非隐喻表达的显着偏好，这不能归因于更高的熟悉程度。