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An E-Prime Study on the Cognitive Mechanisms of English Predicative Metaphor Comprehension by Chinese EFL Learners

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Author	Su, Yuanlian Liu, Jie
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Studies on predicative metaphors like The rumor flew through the office have not received due attention until recently. Through a behavioural experiment, this study investigates the cognitive mechanisms as well as the effects of familiarity on Chinese EFL learners' comprehension of English predicative metaphors, adopting a two factors within-subject design: 2 (degree of familiarity: high-familiarity, low-familiarity) × 3 (priming condition: matching priming condition (MP), mismatching priming condition (MMP) and, no priming condition (NP)). Forty-five third-year Chinese undergraduate students participated in the experiment by completing a metaphor semantic comprehension test. Their reaction times (RTs) and accuracy rate of comprehension were recorded and a two-way ANOVA analysis of the results reveals that: Embodied simulation mechanism plays an important role in English predicative metaphor processing, especially when the metaphors being processed are unfamiliar. Yet its role diminishes when the metaphors being processed are highly familiar, which encourages the use of the language processing mechanism. To conclude, Chinese EFL learners make use of either the embodied simulation mechanism or the language processing mechanism in comprehending predicative metaphors, depending on their varying degrees of familiarity. These findings shed light on predicative metaphor instruction in L2 English teaching.
ISSN	19164742
e-ISSN	19164750
DOI	10.5539/elt.v13n10p1
Journal	English Language Teaching
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	13
Language	English
Publisher	Canadian Center of Science and Education
Publisher Date	2020-08-31
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Language Studies Chinese Efl Learners Predicative Metaphors Priming Condition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	1200/1203 Education Linguistics and Language

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