The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference
Kevin Ezra Moore
[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
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
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2020. Moving Time vs. Frame-relative motion: A frame-based account of the distinction between primary metaphor and fictive motion. Constructions and Frames 12:2, pp. 272–314
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 semantic… read more | Article
2014. The two-Mover hypothesis and the significance of “direction of motion” in temporal metaphors. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2, pp. 375–409
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 | Article
2013. Frames and the experiential basis of the Moving Time metaphor. Advances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 85–108
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 | Article
2011. Frames and the experiential basis of the Moving Time metaphor. Advances in Frame Semantics, pp. 80–103
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 | Article
1999. The Conventional Association of a Lexeme with a Metaphor: The Case of the Wolof Verb fekk-e. Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 207 ff.
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