The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference / Kevin Ezra Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Kevin Ezra, author.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; Volume 42.

Human Cognitive Processing ; Volume 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific

Contents:

The Spatial Language of Time; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Epigraph; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of diagrams; List of tables; Abbreviations and special symbols; Transcription conventions; Acknowledgments; I. Temporal metaphor and ego's perspective; 1. Introduction: Talking about time as if it were space; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Overview; 1.3 Time itself; 1.4 Conceptual metaphor theory; 1.4.1 Metaphors as conceptual correspondences (mappings); 1.4.2 Using Wolof data; 1.4.3 Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time; 1.4.4 Conceptual frames; 1.4.5 Crosslinguistic interest

1.5 Mappings between distinct concepts1.6 Organization of the book; 1.7 About the Wolof data; 2. The deictic nature of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time expressions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The indexical ground and decentering; 2.3 Summary; 3. The experiential bases (grounding, motivation) of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Psychological reality; 3.3 Experiential bases; 3.3.1 The experiential basis of Moving Ego; 3.3.2 The experiential basis of Ego-centered Moving Time; 3.3.2.1 Experimental support; 3.3.2.2 The paradox of moving from later to earlier

3.3.2.3 The expectation of arrival here frame3.3.2.4 Application to Moving Ego; 3.4 Motivation; 3.5 Summary; 4. From earlier to later; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Now is a Mover; 4.3 A situation is a Mover; 4.4 The Purposeful Activity metaphor; 4.5 Summary and conclusions; 5. Frame of reference and alternate construals of ego-centered time; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Moving Ego, Ego-centered Moving Time, and frame-relative fictive motion; 5.3 Figure-Ground role reversal, Moving-ego/Ego-centered moving-time, and factive/fictive motion; 5.4 A path-configured ego-perspective frame of reference

5.5 A path-configured Mover-based frame of reference5.6 Summary and conclusions; II. Perspectival neutrality; 6. A field-based frame of reference; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Sequence is relative position on a path; 6.2.1 Distinguishing sequence is relative position on a path from Ego-centered Moving Time; 6.2.2 The experiential basis of sequence is relative position on a path; 6.3 The psychological present; 6.4 Summary and conclusions; 7.2 Work by Núñez, Motz, & Teuscher (2005); 7. The psychological reality of sequence is relative position on a path; 7.1 Introduction; 7.3 Other experimental work

8. Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast: The case of sequence is relative position8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Verticality and sequence is relative position in a stack; 8.3 Sequence is relative position in a stack: Motivation and structure; 8.4 Conclusions: Ego-perspective vs. field-based frames of reference; 9. Space-to-time metonymy; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The existence of space-to-time metonymy; 9.3 A metonymy to metaphor continuum; 9.4 Metonymy, metaphor, and frames; 9.5 Indexical metonymy and material anchors; 9.6 Summary and conclusions

III. The temporal semantics of IN-FRONT and BEHIND

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270658

9027270651

OCLC:

879644897