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Chapter 8. A neurocognitive approach to Chinese idiom comprehension

An ERP study
  • Hui Zhang
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Abstract

In Chinese, three-character idioms abound, represented by a ‘base’ form as well as variants according to the context in which they are embedded. How base-forms and their variants are contextually processed is controversial. In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) data were collected to investigate time course and neural activity in the processing of Chinese three-character idioms and their variants in discourse dialogic contexts (e.g. literally biased and figuratively biased contexts). The results are discussed in regard to three proposed models of idiom processing and theories of idiom variations elaborated by Cognitive Linguistics, Relevance Theory and Glucksberg’s proposals. The data provide neural evidence that different types of discourse context play a facilitative role in the processing of base-forms and variants.

Abstract

In Chinese, three-character idioms abound, represented by a ‘base’ form as well as variants according to the context in which they are embedded. How base-forms and their variants are contextually processed is controversial. In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) data were collected to investigate time course and neural activity in the processing of Chinese three-character idioms and their variants in discourse dialogic contexts (e.g. literally biased and figuratively biased contexts). The results are discussed in regard to three proposed models of idiom processing and theories of idiom variations elaborated by Cognitive Linguistics, Relevance Theory and Glucksberg’s proposals. The data provide neural evidence that different types of discourse context play a facilitative role in the processing of base-forms and variants.

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