Article published in:
Conceptualizations of TimeEdited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
[Human Cognitive Processing 52] 2016
► pp. 187–204
Metaphor and thought
Conceptualization of time in Chinese
The paper focuses on the issues within the paradigm of Contemporary Metaphor
Theory, concerning significant differences in the ways time is conceptualized in
Chinese and English. Although it is still true that time is understood through space
via metaphor, the paper provides evidence that time and space in Chinese present
a blended form, rather than what is widely assumed to be conceptualization
of one dimension in terms of another one. For instance, the Chinese word for
the universe, conventionally referred to by the form entailing both space and
time in its Chinese morphology, is now blended into one. Furthermore, the
paper will argue that time, as a culturally sensitive entity, is more distinctly
conceptualized as water in Chinese.
Keywords: conceptual metaphor, language and culture, language
and cognition, time, time and place, time and water
Published online: 14 June 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.52.09su
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.52.09su
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