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Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel
[Human Cognitive Processing 73] 2022
► pp. 371–404

Chapter 12
Moving reader or moving text?

Contrasts and analogies between metaphors of time and text organization in Finnish

| University of Turku
| University of Helsinki

This chapter is concerned with metaphors of text organization that are instantiated by metaphorical expressions pertaining to metatextual relations, i.e. relations between different parts of a text or between a text and its reader (e.g. as noted in the foregoing chapters). The purpose of the study is to examine metaphors of text organization denoted by Finnish front and back gram (adposition and adverb) constructions, and to compare the system of metaphors of text organization to the previously attested system for spatial metaphors of time. The study builds upon the system for metaphors of text organization presented by Huumo (2016), and expands on it by analyzing data extracted from online discussion messages posted at the Finnish social networking site Suomi24.

Keywords: adposition, adverb, back, front, metatext, space
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Spatial uses of Finnish front–back grams
  • 3.Metaphorical uses of the grams for time
  • 4.The data for the present study
  • 5.Finnish metaphors of text organization
    • 5.1Moving Reader
    • 5.2Moving Story
    • 5.3Reader-centered Moving Text
    • 5.4Moving Text Sequence
    • 5.5Moving ‘more to the fore’ and ‘more to the back’ in a text
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • Appendix
  • List of glossing abbreviations
Published online: 27 October 2022
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