The Study on the Left- Right Axis of Horizontal Dimensional Time- Space Metaphors of English in Chinese Hearing Impaired People
Chinese hearing impaired people show consistency effect of aesthesia and kinesthetic modality.According to the test,Chinese hearing impaired people show similar past,right- futuretime-space metaphors in both visual and kinesthetic modality as the normal hearing people. Meanwhile,Chinese hearing impaired people have their own characteristics different from the normal hearing people: learning and using sign language has an effect on horizontal dimensional time- space metaphors of English in Chinese hearing impaired people,and the subjects do not have the characteristics of ipsilateral dominance effect in the presented position of stimulating materials as well as the reaction. Therefore,Chinese hearing impaired people should be aided to distinguish the semantic differences in the concepts of time and space different from normal hearing people,which will contribute to the formation of their horizontal dimensional time- space metaphors of English from the left- right axis similar to the normal hearing people.