On the Interpretive Processes of`Deviant Sentences'

In a recent paper I have discussed about some metaphorical expressions and observed that by virtue of the common ability in our brains we can give some`creative'interpretations even to the phreses which are peculiar to an individual language such as`a pink program'or`a black(or dark)eye',although we have to recognize,of course,the comparative gaps in the quality of readings between the speakers of different languages.Now our concern is to extend the range of our investigations a little more and to go further into the core of the creative mind.We shall here make a brief survey on the interpretive processes of deviant sentences in relation to their production mechanism.|本論文は、Morita(1992)と一体を成するものである。前論文では、言語の創造性の問題を、メタフォリカルな表現をめぐる日本語話者と英語話者の解釈の共通性と差異性という観点から論じたが、本論文では、同じ問題を「逸脱文の生成及び解釈の過程」という別の角度から考察する。