Chapter published in:
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event DescriptionsEdited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
[Human Cognitive Processing 69] 2020
► pp. 143–180
A fine-grained analysis of manner salience
Experimental evidence from Japanese and English
Kimi Akita | Nagoya University
Yo Matsumoto | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
This chapter delves into the typological
discussion of “manner salience” (Slobin 2004, 2006) by means of a fine-grained examination of
different kinds of manner expressions. Our two speech elicitation
experiments revealed that English speakers are clearly more manner
salient than Japanese in the use of the “default” general manner
expression (i.e. walk) in describing human walking
motion. On the other hand, Japanese speakers use mimetic adverbs
which significantly contribute to the expressive power of manner
expressions, especially in describing the sounds that moving
entities make. These results indicate that manner salience is a
complex phenomenon that involves multiple parameters in the form and
meaning of manner expressions, rather than a mere epiphenomenon of
the typology based on path coding positions.
Keywords: expressiveness, frog stories, ideophones, mimetics, sounds of motion, video experiment
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.05aki
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.05aki
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