惯用语理解的多种心理机制：不同的证据

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 惯用语的理解机制一直是心理语言学研究的热点问题。来自语言学和神经生理学的证据都表明，对惯用语的加工存在多样化趋势，而且加工策略和手段会随个体卷入社会生活的程度而变化。惯用语的加工受加工者自身的隐喻知识以及惯用语本身性质的影响。另外，惯用语加工激活的脑区表明句法和语义分析在惯用语理解中均发挥重要作用，惯用语并没有词汇化，但是不能使用统一的加工模型来整合惯用语的理解机制。惯用语自身性质的多样化导致惯用语理解的多种心理机制。

关键词: 惯用语, 理解机制, 证据, 语义性质

Abstract: Mental mechanisms of idiom comprehension, which have been studying for long time in the field of psychology, were proved through linguistics and neuropsychology studies to be very complicated. On the one hand, both subjects’ metaphoric knowledge and idioms’ innate features affect idiom comprehension; on the other hand, neuro studies on the activation of brain areas in idiom processing suggests that syntactic and semantic analyzing played significant roles, inferring that even though idioms are not lexicalized, mental mechanisms of idiom comprehension can not be as unified as one single model. The diversity of idioms themselves lead to the various mental mechanisms of idiom processing.

Key words: idiom, mechanism of processing, proofs, semantic property

马利军张积家. 惯用语理解的多种心理机制：不同的证据[J]. 心理科学, 2012, 35(2): 309-313.

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