Article published in:
Conceptualizations of TimeEdited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
[Human Cognitive Processing 52] 2016
► pp. 207–242
Temporal scenery
Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asian languages
Katsunobu Izutsu | Hokkaido University of Education
Mitsuko Narita Izutsu | Fuji Women's University
The present article analyzes the conceptual patterns of temporal deixis in Ainu,
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ryukyuan. It demonstrates that Lakoff and
Johnson’s notions ‘moving time’ and ‘moving observer’ are more or less applicable
to the five East Asian languages but are not necessarily mutually exclusive
conceptions. Deictic expressions of time in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can
presuppose both moving time and moving observer, while comparable expressions
in Ainu and Ryukyuan, only moving time. It is argued that Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean have busier “temporal scenery” for expressions of temporal
deixis than Ainu and Ryukyuan do.
Published online: 14 June 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.52.10izu
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.52.10izu
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