Idiom Comprehension of Chinese Patients With Aphasia: A Case Study  

汉语失语症患者的习语理解:案例研究

作　　者：Hongjun CHEN Xintong DOU Yunan LIU Dawei HU Yan ZHAO 陈宏俊;窦欣桐;刘昱南;胡大维;赵艳(大连理工大学;联勤保障部队大连康复疗养中心)

机构地区：[1]Dalian University of Technology [2]Joint Logistic Support Force Dalian Rehabilitation Center

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2024年第4期569-590,687,共23页中国应用语言学（英文）

摘　　要：Previous studies on idiom comprehension of patients with aphasia(PWAs)mainly focused on Indo-European speakers,examining whether PWAs could correctly extract the target meaning of idioms,while among Chinese PWAs,idiom familiarity,context and other variables affecting idiom comprehension were rarely studied.Hence,this study aims to explore whether Chinese PWAs can correctly comprehend the target meaning of idioms,and further investigate the role of familiarity and context.For three Chinese PWAs,this study adopted the string-to-word matching task,taking Chinese four-character idioms as the experimental stimuli,and provided decoy words containing target meaning,literal meaning,unrelated abstract meaning and unrelated concrete meaning as the matching words of idiom items by manipulating the familiarity and contextual presence of idiom items.The results suggested that the PWAs could not correctly extract the target meaning of idioms and presented both the literal meaning tendency and the weak abstract meaning tendency,and the influence of familiarity on the comprehension of idioms was stronger than that of context.These results support the Graded Salience Hypothesis.以往对于失语症患者的习语理解研究主要以印欧语者为研究对象,关注失语症患者能否正确提取习语目标义,而对汉语失语症者以及习语熟悉度、语境等影响习语理解等变量考察不足。因此,本研究旨在探究汉语失语症患者能否正确理解习语目标义的基础上,进一步考察熟悉度与语境两种影响因素的作用。针对三位中国失语症患者,本研究采用习语词汇匹配任务,以汉语四字格成语为实验刺激,通过操纵习语项目的熟悉度和语境存在状态,提供含有目标义、字面义、无关抽象义和无关具体义的诱饵词作为习语项目的匹配词汇。结果提示失语症患者无法正确提取习语目标义且呈现字面义倾向和弱抽象义倾向,熟悉度对其习语理解影响强于语境。以上结果支持分级凸显假说。

关 键 词：APHASIA idiom comprehension Chinese four-character idioms graded salience hypothesis case study 

分 类 号：R741[医药卫生—神经病学与精神病学] H1[医药卫生—临床医学]