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Publication details [#31919]

Fleischman, Suzanne. 1991. Discourse as space/discourse as time: Reflections on the metalanguage of spoken and written discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (4) : 291–306.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metalanguage | space deixis | spoken language | time deixis | written language

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that we conceptualize discourse either as space or as time and examines why the temporal metaphor mainly correlates with spoken discourse and the spatial metaphor mainly with written discourse.