ABSTRACT The Moving Time metaphor and the Moving Ego metaphor are common in English speakers’ conceptualization of time. Previous research has suggested a broad range of factors influencing people’s perspectives on the movement of events in time and their concomitant interpretations of temporally ambiguous utterances. In the current study, we investigated whether the pace of life, a previously unexplored factor, influences people’s temporal reasoning at city level and individual level. Results showed that participants with a slow pace of life tended to adopt the Moving Ego perspective than participants with a fast pace of life. The current research offers a new perspective that individual differences such as the pace of life may also influence the resolution of temporally ambiguous language.

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以生活的速度前进：生活节奏如何影响时间推理

摘要 移动时间隐喻和移动自我隐喻在英语使用者的时间概念化中很常见。先前的研究表明，影响人们对时间运动的看法以及他们对时间上模棱两可的话语的伴随解释的广泛因素。在当前的研究中，我们调查了生活节奏这一以前未探索过的因素是否会影响人们在城市层面和个人层面的时间推理。结果表明，生活节奏较慢的参与者比生活节奏较快的参与者更倾向于采用移动自我的观点。当前的研究提供了一个新的视角，即生活节奏等个体差异也可能影响时间模糊语言的解决。