John Benjamins Publishing Company
Temporal scenery
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Abstract
The present article analyzes the conceptual patterns of temporal deixis in Ainu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ryukyuan. It demonstrates that Lakoff and Johnson’s notions ‘moving time’ and ‘moving observer’ are more or less applicable to the five East Asian languages but are not necessarily mutually exclusive conceptions. Deictic expressions of time in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can presuppose both moving time and moving observer, while comparable expressions in Ainu and Ryukyuan, only moving time. It is argued that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have busier “temporal scenery” for expressions of temporal deixis than Ainu and Ryukyuan do.
Abstract
The present article analyzes the conceptual patterns of temporal deixis in Ainu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ryukyuan. It demonstrates that Lakoff and Johnson’s notions ‘moving time’ and ‘moving observer’ are more or less applicable to the five East Asian languages but are not necessarily mutually exclusive conceptions. Deictic expressions of time in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can presuppose both moving time and moving observer, while comparable expressions in Ainu and Ryukyuan, only moving time. It is argued that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have busier “temporal scenery” for expressions of temporal deixis than Ainu and Ryukyuan do.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction ix
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Timeless concept of Temporality
- Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time? 3
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Spatial construal of time extended
- Situating Events in Language 27
- Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning 43
- Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand 67
- Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective 85
- The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information 103
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Time conceptualizations beyond space
- The cultural cognition of time 125
- When time is not space 151
- Metaphor and thought 187
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Conceptualizations of temporal categories
- Temporal scenery 207
- Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia – concepts, linguistic area 243
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Distributional sources of time conceptualization
- Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance 273
- Time-discretising adverbials 295
- Author index 317
- Subject index 323
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction ix
-
Timeless concept of Temporality
- Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time? 3
-
Spatial construal of time extended
- Situating Events in Language 27
- Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning 43
- Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand 67
- Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective 85
- The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information 103
-
Time conceptualizations beyond space
- The cultural cognition of time 125
- When time is not space 151
- Metaphor and thought 187
-
Conceptualizations of temporal categories
- Temporal scenery 207
- Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia – concepts, linguistic area 243
-
Distributional sources of time conceptualization
- Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance 273
- Time-discretising adverbials 295
- Author index 317
- Subject index 323
