Kevin Ezra Moore

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kevin Ezra Moore plays a role.

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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

There is an elaborate analogy between Moving Time (composed of primary metaphors; e.g. Christmas is approaching) and Frame-relative Fictive Motion (e.g. Your destination is approaching). It has been suggested that this analogy could be involved in the motivation of Moving Time. However, a… read more
It is claimed that expressions that instantiate sequence is relative position on a path (e.g. Spring follows winter) are the only type of temporal expression in English in which two distinct entities metaphorically move. A possible motivation for why we do not find two Times-as-Movers going the… read more
Moore, Kevin Ezra 2013 Frames and the experiential basis of the Moving Time metaphorAdvances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 85–108 | Article
It is not satisfactory to analyze temporal metaphors such Moving Ego (e.g. We are approaching the end of the year) and Moving Time (e.g. The end of the year is approaching) simply as mappings from SPACE to TIME. In this case, the intuitively obvious experiential basis of Moving Ego leads to a… read more
It is not satisfactory to analyze temporal metaphors such Moving Ego (e.g. We are approaching the end of the year) and Moving Time (e.g. The end of the year is approaching) simply as mappings from SPACE to TIME. In this case, the intuitively obvious experiential basis of Moving Ego leads to a… read more