中文摘要：

我们从心理语言学的角度,对空间隐喻进行相似性分类和计算,使用多维量表和聚类方法,以聋人为被试分别进行了两个实验。实验结果表明,聋人为实现空间隐喻理解的计算,使用了地形空间和语法空间的特征信息,同时受手语语言特点的影响,其空间隐喻的认知主题包括手势者自身参照系、参照物的相对坐标系、手势空间的饱和度、以手部或胸部为边界。同时表明由于两种空间的存在,聋人大脑对空间隐喻的理解存在着层次,并且在长期使用手语交流的过程中,其地形空间和语法空间相互作用,影响了聋人大脑空间隐喻的结构和表征,从而导致了独特的高效快速空间隐喻计算。

英文摘要：

The metaphor processing is a challenging issuein natural language processing. From the perspective of psycholinguistics, spatial metaphor is made to perform similar classification and computation. We use multidimensional scaling and clustering method, with the deaf as subjects for two experiments, and showe thatthe deaf use the topographic space and syntactic space for computational implementation of spatial metaphor comprehension. At the same time, influenced by sign language, the deaf＇s cognitive subjects of spatial metaphor include signers＇ own reference frame, references＇ relative coordinates and the sign space saturation, within the boundary of the part of hand or chest. It is also revealed from the experiments that, due to the presence of two kinds of space, spatial metaphor understanding in the deaf brain is leveled, as suggested by the the Sapir Whorf hypothesis, with the structure and representation of spatial metaphor influenced by its interaction between topographic space and syntactic space.