Science and Technology Production
Congress
Authorship
RICARDO MINERVINO
;
MICAELA TAVERNINI
;
LUISINA RIVADERO
;
MELISA DIAZ
;
TRENCH, JUAN MAXIMO
Date
2019
Publishing House and Editing Place
Universidad de Buenos Aires
ISSN
2618-2238
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From the embodied approach to conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff, 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) it follows that congenitally blind participants should exhibit some difficulties for comprehending visual metaphors-a prediction that does not follow from an amodal perspective on metaphor comprehension (e.g., Bowdle & Gentner, 2005). Two experiments were carried out to shed light on this debate. In Experiment 1, 20 sighted and 20 congenitally blind participants were exposed to three types of...
From the embodied approach to conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff, 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) it follows that congenitally blind participants should exhibit some difficulties for comprehending visual metaphors-a prediction that does not follow from an amodal perspective on metaphor comprehension (e.g., Bowdle & Gentner, 2005). Two experiments were carried out to shed light on this debate. In Experiment 1, 20 sighted and 20 congenitally blind participants were exposed to three types of expressions: metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING conceptual metaphor, metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING conceptual metaphor, and filler expressions. No differences were found between blind and sighted participants for any type of expressions. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 with the use of visual metaphors which had proven to be very novel through an independent study. We discuss the implications of these results for current theories of metaphor comprehension, as well as for the embodied approach to concepts. We also advance some conjectures about the resources and mechanisms by which blind participants might succeed in making sense of visual metaphors.
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Key Words
CONCEPTUAL METAPHORBLINDEMBODIMENTCOMPREHENSION