This study aimed to investigate how priming a metaphor by the gestural representation of its schema affects the understanding of that metaphor. In each of the two tests, different groups of participants were invited to judge the sensibility of the same 20 metaphors preceded by congruent versus incongruent gesture primes as compared to no prime. In the congruent gesture-prime conditions, each metaphor was preceded by a gesture that represented the schema of the subsequent metaphor whereas this gesture was not compatible with the schema of the subsequent metaphor in the incongruent gesture-prime conditions. Results showed that a higher proportion of sentences were judged to be sensible in the congruent gesture-prime conditions compared to no-prime and incongruent gesture-prime conditions. Also, response times of sensibility judgements were shorter in congruent gesture-prime conditions compared to no-prime and incongruent gesture-prime conditions. These results suggest that metaphor schema affects metaphor comprehension through the activation of metaphorically-relevant information and suppressing irrelevant information.

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隐喻图式的手势表征对隐喻理解的影响

本研究旨在调查通过图式的手势表征启动隐喻如何影响对该隐喻的理解。在这两个测试的每一个中，不同的参与者组被邀请来判断相同的 20 个隐喻的敏感性，这些隐喻前面有一致和不一致的手势素数，与没有素数相比。在一致的手势启动条件下，每个隐喻之前都有一个代表后续隐喻图式的手势，而在不一致的手势启动条件下，该手势与后续隐喻的图式不兼容。结果表明，与无启动和不一致的手势启动条件相比，在一致的手势启动条件下，更高比例的句子被判断为合理。还，与无启动和不一致的手势启动条件相比，在一致的手势启动条件下，敏感性判断的响应时间更短。这些结果表明，隐喻图式通过激活隐喻相关信息并抑制不相关信息来影响隐喻理解。