Speedy Metonymy, Tricky Metaphor, Irrelevant Compositionality: How Nonliteralness Affects Idioms in Reading and Rating

Autor/in	Michl, Diana
Titel	Speedy Metonymy, Tricky Metaphor, Irrelevant Compositionality: How Nonliteralness Affects Idioms in Reading and Rating
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48 (2019) 6, S.1285-1310 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Michl, Diana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-019-09658-7
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Figurative Language; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Reading Processes; Comparative Analysis; Reading Rate + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Leseprozess; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit
Abstract	It is widely acknowledged that fixed expressions such as idioms have a processing advantage over non-idiomatic language. While many idioms are metaphoric, metonymic, or even literal, the effect of varying nonliteralness in their processing has not been much researched yet. Theoretical and empirical findings suggest that metonymies are easier to process than metaphors but it is unclear whether this applies to idioms. Two self-paced reading experiments test whether metonymic, metaphoric, or literal idioms have a greater processing advantage over non-idiomatic control sentences, and whether this is caused by varying nonliteralness. Both studies find that metonymic and literal idioms are read significantly faster than controls, while the advantage for metaphoric idioms is only tenuous. Only experiment 2 finds literal idioms to be read fastest of all. As compositionality of the idioms cannot account for these findings, some effect of nonliteralness is suggested, together with idiomaticity and the sentential context. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01