Science and Technology Production
Congress
Authorship
RICARDO MINERVINO
;
ALEJANDRA MARTIN
;
TRENCH, JUAN MAXIMO
Date
2009
Publishing House and Editing Place
Cognitive Science Society
ISSN
978-0-9768318-5-3
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An experiment was carried out to test the thesis of the sensory-motor basis of metaphorical abstract concepts. Congenitally blind and sighted participants had to paraphrase metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING and UNDERSTAN-DING is SEEING conceptual metaphors, and to evaluate how much they felt they had understood them. On the one hand, congenitally blind participants did not comprehend better the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING expressions than the UNDERSTANDING is SEE...
An experiment was carried out to test the thesis of the sensory-motor basis of metaphorical abstract concepts. Congenitally blind and sighted participants had to paraphrase metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING and UNDERSTAN-DING is SEEING conceptual metaphors, and to evaluate how much they felt they had understood them. On the one hand, congenitally blind participants did not comprehend better the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING expressions than the UNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions. On the other hand, sighted participants did not comprehend the UNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions better than the blind. The implications of the results for the embodied Conceptual Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson are discussed.
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Key Words
Conceptual metaphorembodied cognition