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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
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.