第46回 関西心理言語学研究会(KCP)ミーティング

[Kentaro Nakatani]

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関西心理言語学研究会（KCP）の次回研究会が決まりましたのでお知らせします。

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第46回　KCPミーティング 

【日時】4/15 (土) 13:00--15:00
【場所】西宮大学交流センター　セミナー室１
http://www.nishi.or.jp/contents/0002719800040008800519.html#access
（阪急西宮北口 北出口すぐ ACTA西宮東館6階）

【発表者】Mikihiro Tanaka (Konan Women's University)
【発表タイトル】The Production of Metonymy: Evidence from Priming
【要旨】
Figurative language such as metonymy (e.g., I bought Dickens instead
of I bought Dickens’ book) is widely used in everyday conversation.
While several psycholinguistic studies have investigated the
comprehension of metonymy, little is known about how metonymic
expressions are constructed.

The present study reports an experiment that investigated whether
speakers prime metonymic expression in Japanese sentence production.
In a recalled-based sentence production task (Ferreira, 2003),
speakers encoded two sentences (the Prime and filler) into memory,
then were asked to produce the Prime. Then speakers were presented
with the Target and filler sentence, and were prompted to produce the
Target. I examined the form of participants' subsequent Target
descriptions. There were three prime conditions: metonymic,
non-metonymic or literal expressions (1). For recalling Primes and
Targets, they comprised a subject NP only, allowing a metonymic or
non-metonymic completion (2).

Results showed that participants were more likely to recall the
metonymic expressions correctly after recalling the metonymic
expressions than after recalling the non-metonymic and literal
expressions as the Primes. Also, the difference of the proportions of
the non-metonymic and literal expressions was not significant. This
result is not compatible with the ‘indirect’ model of figurative
language in which the non-metonymic expressions are accessed prior to
the metonymic expressions (e.g., Grice, 1975). Instead, it supports
the ‘direct’ model in which the metonymic and non-metonymic
expressions can be accessed directly (e.g, Frisson & Pickering, 1999).

(1) Prime: Shousetsuka-ga Toshokan-de, [Dickens-o yonda / Dickens no
hon-o yon-da / Dickens-ni atta].
'The novelist in the library [wrote Dickens / wrote Dickens’s book /
met Dickens]. (metonymic /non-metonymic /literal)'

(2) Target: Kashu-ga Concert-de, [Madonna-o utta / Madonna no CD-o utta].
'The singer in the concert … [sold Madonna /sold Madonna’s CD].'
(metonymic /non-metonymic)

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問い合わせ／連絡先
田中幹大　（甲南女子大学）mta...@konan-wu.ac.jp
中谷健太郎（甲南大学）kent...@konan-u.ac.jp
中野陽子　（関西学院大学）y-k.n...@kwansei.ac.jp
祐伯敦史　（立命館大学）yuh...@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp