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On the path of time: temporal motion in typological perspective
Language and Cognition ( IF 1.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 , DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2020.7
MICHELE I. FEIST , SARAH E. DUFFY

The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings. To fill that gap, the current study uses corpus data to examine the use of motion verbs in two typologically different languages, English and Spanish. We first investigated the relative frequency of the two metaphors. Whereas we observed no difference in frequency in the Spanish data, our findings indicated that in English, Moving Time expressions are more prevalent than are Moving Ego expressions. Second, we focused on the patterns of use of the verbs themselves, asking whether well-known typological patterns in the expression of spatial motion would carry over to temporal motion. Specifically, we examined the frequencies of temporal uses of path and manner verbs in English and in Spanish. Contra the patterns observed in space, we observed a preference for path verbs in both languages, with this preference more strongly evident in English than in Spanish. In addition, our findings revealed greater use of motion verbs in temporal expressions in Spanish compared to English. These findings begin to outline constraints on the aspects of spatial conceptualization that are likely to be reused in the conceptualization of time.

中文翻译:

在时间的道路上:类型学视角下的时间运动

移动的自我和移动的时间隐喻为时空隐喻的心理现实提供了肥沃的试验场。尽管如此,很少有研究针对这两种映射中使用的语言模式。为了填补这一空白,目前的研究使用语料库数据来检查运动动词在两种类型不同的语言(英语和西班牙语)中的使用。我们首先调查了这两个隐喻的相对频率。虽然我们在西班牙数据中观察到频率没有差异,但我们的研究结果表明,在英语中,移动时间表达比移动自我表达更普遍。其次,我们关注动词本身的使用模式,询问空间运动表达中众所周知的类型学模式是否会延续到时间运动。具体来说,我们检查了英语和西班牙语中路径动词和方式动词的时间使用频率。与在空间中观察到的模式相反,我们观察到两种语言对路径动词的偏好,这种偏好在英语中比在西班牙语中更明显。此外,我们的研究结果表明,与英语相比,西班牙语的时间表达中更多地使用运动动词。这些发现开始勾勒出可能在时间概念化中重用的空间概念化方面的限制。我们的研究结果表明,与英语相比,西班牙语的时间表达中更多地使用运动动词。这些发现开始勾勒出可能在时间概念化中重用的空间概念化方面的限制。我们的研究结果表明,与英语相比,西班牙语的时间表达中更多地使用运动动词。这些发现开始勾勒出可能在时间概念化中重用的空间概念化方面的限制。
更新日期:2020-04-13
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