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Moving along paths in space and time
Journal of Linguistics ( IF 1.381 ) Pub Date : 2017-12-14 , DOI: 10.1017/s0022226717000366
TUOMAS HUUMO

In cognitive linguistics, motion metaphors of time (e.g.Christmas is approaching, We left the crisis behind) have been actively studied during the last decades. In addition to motion verbs, prepositional expressions are an important element in such metaphors. This work combines insights from Cognitive Grammar and Conceptual Metaphor Theory to account for uses of English path prepositions in motion metaphors of time. It is argued that such expressions conceptualize time as a path where amoveris advancing. The nature of themovervaries: it can be an individual entity metaphorically in motion (e.g.We wentTHROUGHa hard winter), an extended period of time (e.g.The period of Daylight Saving Time goes onPASTSeptember), or the temporal profile of a process (e.g.I sleptTHROUGHthe afternoon). The nature of themovercorrelates with the grammatical function of the path expression, which alternates between a complement of a motion verb and a free modifier. Accordingly, the time path can relate with figurative (motion-related) or veridical (duration-related) conceptualizations of time. While a spatial path is direction-neutral, a time path can, with few exceptions, only be scrutinized in the earlier$\rightarrow$later direction.

中文翻译:

沿着空间和时间的路径移动

在认知语言学中,时间的运动隐喻(例如圣诞节快到了,我们把危机抛在脑后) 在过去的几十年里得到了积极的研究。除了动作动词外,介词表达是此类隐喻中的重要元素。这项工作结合了认知语法和概念隐喻理论的见解,以解释英语路径介词在时间运动隐喻中的使用。有人认为,这样的表述将时间概念化为一条路径,搬运工正在推进。的性质搬运工变化:它可以是一个隐喻地运动的个体实体(例如我们去了通过一个艰难的冬天),一段较长的时间(例如夏令时期间继续过去的九月),或过程的时间分布(例如我睡了通过这个下午)。的性质搬运工与路径表达的语法功能相关,它在动作动词的补语和自由修饰语之间交替。因此,时间路径可以与时间的比喻(运动相关)或真实(持续时间相关)概念化相关。虽然空间路径是方向中立的,但时间路径除了少数例外,只能在较早的时候被仔细检查。$\右箭头$以后的方向。
更新日期:2017-12-14
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