Empirical Methods in Language Studies
Series:
Edited By Krzysztof Kosecki and Janusz Badio
Book (EPUB)
- ISBN:
- 978-3-653-97378-5
- Availability:
- Available
- Subjects:
Prices
Currency depends on your shipping address
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 322 pp., 31 tables, 50 graphs
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
Chapter
- Subjects:
Prices
Chapter Price (Chapters only digitally available)
Currency depends on your shipping address
Extract
Abstract: This study demonstrates a role of time in structuring fictive motion expressions on the basis of empirical language data found in the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP). It focuses on a specific category of fictive motion used to depict forms, orientations, or locations of spatially extended objects in terms of a path over the object’s extent. Although fictive motion employs event structuring, frequencies of language patterns found in the corpus demonstrate that language users tend to avoid articulating such expressions in temporal terms. The avoidance of temporality in fictive motion can be attributed to a basic conceptual difference between objects and force-dynamic events, as distinguished in Langacker’s canonical event model. According to that model, while time is the primary domain of conceptualization for events, for objects the primary domain of conceptualization is space.
Keywords: fictive motion, coextension paths, events, time, space
1. Fictive motion
Fictive motion (Talmy, 1996, 2000; Langacker, 2005, 2008a) refers to figurative representations of motion attributed to immobile material objects, states, or abstract concepts, in which the meaning of motion verbs is semantically extended to express relations that do not involve motion per se, nor change of state. The following sentences (1) and (2) illustrate a specific category of fictive motion used for representation of static objects in space, which was labeled by Talmy (2000) as coextension paths. A coextension path refers to “a depiction of the form, orientation, or location of a spatially extended object in terms...
You are not authenticated to view the full text of this chapter or article.
This site requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books or journals.
Do you have any questions? Contact us.
Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal