空间 时间概念隐喻的心理现实性-基础心理学专业毕业论文.docxVIP

研究结果为汉语使用者通过空间表征理解和建构时间提供了实证支持。同时表明： （1）人们从空间源中引入了多个不同维度的空间表征思考时间；（2）汉语使用者对不 同表征的偏好和具体映射方式与其他研究者报告的英语使用者的结果之间没有显著差 异。 关键词： 空间—时间 垂直 水平 左右轴 前后轴 IV Abstract Space is an important dimension of time metaphors. Studies have shown that people not only use spatial terms talking about time, but also use spatial structures to understand and construct time. Recently, a new cross-cultural research showed that the native English speakers and native Chinese ones consider time differently. Then, do Chinese speakers use different spatial representation to think about time? In fact, there is no consensus in the early findings about native Chinese speakers. And other conclusions from linguistic analysis lacked of experimental support. What spatial representation do Chinese speakers apply to construct time? How about the specific space-time metaphors mode? Is there any metaphor system preferable by Chinese people? These issues are still in the air. Three experiments were designed and conducted in order to test the psychological reality of Chinese speakers’ time representation and provide experimental evidence for further cross-cultural comparative study. Experiment1 was designed in within-subject style. It examined Chinese speakers only, following the “putting time point in three-dimensional space” task (Boroditsky, 2008). The result showed that, (1) participants used both vertical and horizontal directions of spatial representation to reflect time, and horizontal representation was dominant; (2) in horizontal direction, there were two different representations of time: left-right axis and front-back axis, and left-right axis was dominant; and (3) the mapping way of front-back axis mostly focused on the style of near-early and far-late. The result is quite different from Boroditsky’s results about Chinese speakers (2008); however, it coordinates the English speakers’. To test further the psychological reality and the details of reflection of the two different horizontal representatio