Publications

Publication details [#52517]

McGlone, Matthew S. 2009. Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun, or Do You?: Affect, Agency, and Embodiment in Temporal Communication. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (1) : 3–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | commitment | communicative style | metaphor | temporal expression

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study shows that communicators prefer to metaphorically assign temporal agency to themselves whilst describing positive events, yet to events when describing negative events.