Motion and space across languages : theory and applications / edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibarretxe-Antunano, Iraide, editor.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; Volume 59.

Human Cognitive Processing ; Volume 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion in language.

Space and time in language.

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Typology (Linguistics).

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.

Contents:

Intro

Motion and Space across Languages

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Editor and contributors

Editor

Contributors

Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research

1. The range of relations that a Co-event can bear to a Motion event

2. The range of forms with which a Co-event can conflate

3. The range of semantic components expressed in the verb

4. The range of macro-event categories

5. The range of multiple macro-event nesting

6. The range of fictive motion categories

7. Conclusion and reflections

References

Introduction. Motion and semantic typology: A hot old topic with exciting caveats

1. Theoretical framework: Lexicalization patterns and neo-relativistic variants

1.1 Lexicalization patterns and how speakers talk about motion

2. Caveats, less studied issues, and much more

3. Chapters in this collection: The MovEs project and beyond

4. Future ahead

Part I. Delving into motion event typology

Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look

1. Introduction

2. Previous studies

2.1 Manner and manner expressions

2.2 Manner and the framing typology

3. Grain size

4. Event inherence

5. Expressiveness

6. Discussion and conclusion

Acknowledgements

Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages

1.1 Motion expression across languages

1.2 Verbal and non-verbal spatial cognition

2. Methodology

2.1 Participants

2.2 Stimuli

2.3 Tasks and procedure

2.4 Hypotheses

3. Results

3.1 Production

3.2 Categorization

4. Discussion

4.1 Summary of results

4.2 Implications

5. Concluding remarks

Appendix.

Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai

2. The semantics of deictic expressions

2.1 Spatial and functional nature of Deixis

2.2 Deictic expressions in the three languages

3. Experiment

3.1 Method

3.2 Results on the frequencies of deictic verbs and PPs/VPs

3.3 Results and discussion on venitive verbs

3.4 Results and discussion on deictic PPs/VPs

4. General discussion

4.1 The functional semantics of venitive verbs

4.2 Typological implications

5. Conclusion

Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology: The case of Aragonese and Catalan

1. Intratypological variation in genetically-similar languages

2. Aragonese and Catalan motion events

2.1 Languages, informants, and data

2.2 Aragonese and Catalan as verb-framed languages: Motion verbs

2.3 Manner

2.4 Path

3. Conclusions: Intratypological contrasts and minority languages

Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions: A complex typological shift

2. Objectives and methodology

2.1 Standard Latin

2.2 Lines of evolution

3. Verb roots

3.1 motion-into and motion-out

3.2 motion-up and motion-down

3.3 motion-across

4. Prepositions

4.1 motion-into

4.2 motion-out

4.3 motion-up

4.4 motion-down

4.5 motion-across

4.6 Generic or manner verbs

5. Conclusions and further research directions

Sources

Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English

1. The mixed vocabulary

2. Talking about motion in Old and Middle English

2.1 Old and Middle English motion verb inventory

2.2 Old and Middle English motion verb usage.

3. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English

3.2 Results

3.3 Discussion

4. Conclusion

Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience

2. Background

3. Non-actual motion

3.1 Motion affordances and capacity for self-motion

3.2 Visual scanning

3.3 From simulation to imagination

3.4 Summary

4. Method

4.1 Material

4.2 Research questions

5. Non-actual motion in Swedish, French, and Thai

5.1 NAM expressions or not?

5.2 A semantic analysis of NAM expressions

5.3 Summary

6. Conclusion

Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres

2. An overview of figurative motion: Fictive and metaphorical cases

2.1 Fictive motion

2.2 Metaphorical motion

3. Figurative motion across three specific discourses and genres

3.1 Motion constructions in tennis reports

3.2 Motion constructions in architectural reviews

3.3 Motion cases in wine tasting notes

Part II. Expanding motion event typology

Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind: How differently do we move across physical and metaphorical spaces in speech and in gesture?

2. Moving across physical spaces in speech and in gesture

2.1 Expressing motion in speech

2.2 Expressing motion in gesture

2.3 Emergence of language-specific patterns in speech about motion

2.4 Emergence of language-specific patterns in gesture about motion

3. Moving across metaphorical spaces in speech and gesture

3.1 Cognitive evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion

3.2 Crosslinguistic evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion.

3.3 Gestural evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion

4. Future directions

Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language: Looking back and forward

2. Thinking for speaking: Theoretical and empirical bases

3. Thinking for speaking and second language acquisition

4. Conclusions: Lines for future research

Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages: Deixis in Spanish as a second language

2. Romance language contrasts in the domain of motion

2.1 Path description in French and Spanish

2.2 Path description in Italian

2.3 Deixis in Romance languages

2.4 Implications of these language contrasts for the theory

3. Impact of intratypological variation among Romance languages on second language acquisition

3.1 Crosslinguistic influence

3.2 Re-thinking for speaking

3.3 Crosslinguistic influence among Romance languages

4. Path in L2 Spanish by French and Italian native speakers

4.1 Plus-ground analysis

4.2 Plus-ground with more than one element

4.3 Caused-motion constructions

5. Deixis in Spanish as a second language

5.1 Results: Quantitative analysis

5.2 Results: Qualitative analysis

6. Discussion

7. Conclusions and further research

Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between?: A L2 learner's thinking for speaking in her L1 and L2 over 14 years

2. Co-speech gestures

3. Second language acquisition

3.1 Learners' L2 systems

4. Motion events and thinking for speaking

4.1 Thinking for speaking and L2 acquisition

5. Study

5.1 Participants

5.2 Procedures

5.3 Coding

5.4 Data analysis

5.4.1 Speech analysis.

5.4.2 Gesture rate analysis

5.4.3 Speech and gesture analysis

6. Results

6.1 Speech results

6.2 Gesture rate analysis

6.3 Speech and gesture analysis

6.3.1 Path

6.3.2 Manner

6.3.3 Speech and gesture interaction

6.4 Summary

7. Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 13. On the reception of translations: Exploring the impact of typological differences on legal contexts

1. The impact of linguistic framing on language use and cognition

1.1 Effects of typological differences on translation: Slobin's thinking for translating

1.2 Effects of linguistic framing on people's memory and judgments

2. Study 1

2.2 Materials

2.3 Procedure

2.4 Results and discussion

3. Study 2

3.1 Participants

3.2 Materials and procedure

3.3 Results and discussion

4. Study 3

4.1 Participants

4.2 Materials and procedure

4.3 Results and discussion

5. General conclusions

Appendix 1. Materials for Study 1

Version A

Version B

Appendix 2. Materials for Study 2

Appendix 3. Materials for Study 3

Testimony 1

Testimony 2

Testimony 3

Testimony 4

Testimony 5

Appendix 4. List of manner verbs by Testimony and translations provided by each interpreter

Chapter 14. Applying language typology: Practical applications of research on typological contrasts between languages

2. Language typology, its relevance and applications

3. Morphosyntactic typologies applied

4. Applying semantic typology

5. Typological applications: Forensic linguistics and translation

6. Conclusions

Afterword. Typologies and language use

2. Contributions of linguistic typology

3. Expressing Manners of movement across language types.

3.1 Boundary-crossing constraints.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027265364