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The conceptual basis of idiomaticity.

Nayak, Nandini Pangal.

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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The conceptual basis of idiomaticity./
Author:	Nayak, Nandini Pangal.
Description:	114 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-09, Section: B, page: 4255.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International50-09B.
Subject:	Psychology, Experimental. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9003290

The conceptual basis of idiomaticity.
Nayak, Nandini Pangal.

The conceptual basis of idiomaticity. - 114 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-09, Section: B, page: 4255.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989.

Seven experiments were conducted to examine how speakers determine the contextual appropriateness of idioms. The central hypothesis explored was that speakers' understanding of idioms in different contexts was based on the structural properties of their respective conceptual referents such as temporal sequencing and metaphoric mapping. Experiment 1 showed that speakers' judgements of the similarity in the figurative meanings of two idioms (e.g. play with fire and out on a limb) was based on temporal properties of conceptual prototypes. Idioms referring to the same temporal stage of a conceptual prototype were judged to be more similar in meaning than idioms referring to different temporal stages. Subjects in Experiment 2 found idioms used in a prototypical temporal sequence more meaningful than idioms used in sentences that violated the temporal sequence as in He blew his top, but it didn't get on his nerves. Experiment 3 revealed that idioms that were highly similar in meaning (i.e. referred to the same stage of a conceptual prototype) like get hot under the collar and blow your stack were differentiable on the basis of the conceptual information encoded in the discourse contexts in which they occurred. The conceptual coherence between idioms and contexts was found to facilitate the processing speed of idioms in Experiment 4. Contrary to traditional notions that idioms are "dead metaphors," Experiment 5 showed that speakers can recover the underlying conceptual metaphors (e.g. ANGER IS HEAT IN A PRESSURIZED CONTAINER) that link the lexical makeup of an idiom (e.g. let off steam) to its figurative meaning (to get angry). Experiment 6 showed that the metaphoric information reflected in the lexical makeup of idioms also determined their appropriateness to the contexts in which they occurred when those contexts explicitly encoded information about conceptual metaphors. However, Experiment 7 showed that explicit priming of conceptual metaphors in discourse contexts did not facilitate idiom processing. Overall, these studies revealed that idiomatic meaning can be systematically motivated by structural properties of conceptual referents. The implications of a conceptual approach to idiomaticity is discussed.Subjects--Topical Terms:

517106
Psychology, Experimental.

The conceptual basis of idiomaticity.
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