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Title Motion and space across languages : theory and applications / edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Human Cognitive Processing (HCP), 1387-6724 ; volume 59
Human cognitive processing ; v. 59.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Motion and Space across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Editor and contributors -- Editor -- Contributors -- Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research -- 1. The range of relations that a Co-event can bear to a Motion event -- 2. The range of forms with which a Co-event can conflate -- 3. The range of semantic components expressed in the verb -- 4. The range of macro-event categories -- 5. The range of multiple macro-event nesting -- 6. The range of fictive motion categories -- 7. Conclusion and reflections -- References -- Introduction. Motion and semantic typology: A hot old topic with exciting caveats -- 1. Theoretical framework: Lexicalization patterns and neo-relativistic variants -- 1.1 Lexicalization patterns and how speakers talk about motion -- 2. Caveats, less studied issues, and much more -- 3. Chapters in this collection: The MovEs project and beyond -- 4. Future ahead -- References -- Part I. Delving into motion event typology -- Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 2.1 Manner and manner expressions -- 2.2 Manner and the framing typology -- 3. Grain size -- 4. Event inherence -- 5. Expressiveness -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motion expression across languages -- 1.2 Verbal and non-verbal spatial cognition -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Stimuli -- 2.3 Tasks and procedure -- 2.4 Hypotheses -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Production -- 3.2 Categorization -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Summary of results -- 4.2 Implications -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix.
Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantics of deictic expressions -- 2.1 Spatial and functional nature of Deixis -- 2.2 Deictic expressions in the three languages -- 3. Experiment -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Results on the frequencies of deictic verbs and PPs/VPs -- 3.3 Results and discussion on venitive verbs -- 3.4 Results and discussion on deictic PPs/VPs -- 4. General discussion -- 4.1 The functional semantics of venitive verbs -- 4.2 Typological implications -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology: The case of Aragonese and Catalan -- 1. Intratypological variation in genetically-similar languages -- 2. Aragonese and Catalan motion events -- 2.1 Languages, informants, and data -- 2.2 Aragonese and Catalan as verb-framed languages: Motion verbs -- 2.3 Manner -- 2.4 Path -- 3. Conclusions: Intratypological contrasts and minority languages -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions: A complex typological shift -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectives and methodology -- 2.1 Standard Latin -- 2.2 Lines of evolution -- 3. Verb roots -- 3.1 motion-into and motion-out -- 3.2 motion-up and motion-down -- 3.3 motion-across -- 4. Prepositions -- 4.1 motion-into -- 4.2 motion-out -- 4.3 motion-up -- 4.4 motion-down -- 4.5 motion-across -- 4.6 Generic or manner verbs -- 5. Conclusions and further research directions -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English -- 1. The mixed vocabulary -- 2. Talking about motion in Old and Middle English -- 2.1 Old and Middle English motion verb inventory -- 2.2 Old and Middle English motion verb usage.
3. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Non-actual motion -- 3.1 Motion affordances and capacity for self-motion -- 3.2 Visual scanning -- 3.3 From simulation to imagination -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Material -- 4.2 Research questions -- 5. Non-actual motion in Swedish, French, and Thai -- 5.1 NAM expressions or not? -- 5.2 A semantic analysis of NAM expressions -- 5.3 Summary -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of figurative motion: Fictive and metaphorical cases -- 2.1 Fictive motion -- 2.2 Metaphorical motion -- 3. Figurative motion across three specific discourses and genres -- 3.1 Motion constructions in tennis reports -- 3.2 Motion constructions in architectural reviews -- 3.3 Motion cases in wine tasting notes -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Expanding motion event typology -- Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind: How differently do we move across physical and metaphorical spaces in speech and in gesture? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Moving across physical spaces in speech and in gesture -- 2.1 Expressing motion in speech -- 2.2 Expressing motion in gesture -- 2.3 Emergence of language-specific patterns in speech about motion -- 2.4 Emergence of language-specific patterns in gesture about motion -- 3. Moving across metaphorical spaces in speech and gesture -- 3.1 Cognitive evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion -- 3.2 Crosslinguistic evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion.
3.3 Gestural evidence for metaphorical motion as mental simulation of physical motion -- 4. Future directions -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language: Looking back and forward -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking for speaking: Theoretical and empirical bases -- 3. Thinking for speaking and second language acquisition -- 4. Conclusions: Lines for future research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages: Deixis in Spanish as a second language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Romance language contrasts in the domain of motion -- 2.1 Path description in French and Spanish -- 2.2 Path description in Italian -- 2.3 Deixis in Romance languages -- 2.4 Implications of these language contrasts for the theory -- 3. Impact of intratypological variation among Romance languages on second language acquisition -- 3.1 Crosslinguistic influence -- 3.2 Re-thinking for speaking -- 3.3 Crosslinguistic influence among Romance languages -- 4. Path in L2 Spanish by French and Italian native speakers -- 4.1 Plus-ground analysis -- 4.2 Plus-ground with more than one element -- 4.3 Caused-motion constructions -- 5. Deixis in Spanish as a second language -- 5.1 Results: Quantitative analysis -- 5.2 Results: Qualitative analysis -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions and further research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between?: A L2 learner's thinking for speaking in her L1 and L2 over 14 years -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Co-speech gestures -- 3. Second language acquisition -- 3.1 Learners' L2 systems -- 4. Motion events and thinking for speaking -- 4.1 Thinking for speaking and L2 acquisition -- 5. Study -- 5.1 Participants -- 5.2 Procedures -- 5.3 Coding -- 5.4 Data analysis -- 5.4.1 Speech analysis.
5.4.2 Gesture rate analysis -- 5.4.3 Speech and gesture analysis -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Speech results -- 6.2 Gesture rate analysis -- 6.3 Speech and gesture analysis -- 6.3.1 Path -- 6.3.2 Manner -- 6.3.3 Speech and gesture interaction -- 6.4 Summary -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13. On the reception of translations: Exploring the impact of typological differences on legal contexts -- 1. The impact of linguistic framing on language use and cognition -- 1.1 Effects of typological differences on translation: Slobin's thinking for translating -- 1.2 Effects of linguistic framing on people's memory and judgments -- 2. Study 1 -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.4 Results and discussion -- 3. Study 2 -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials and procedure -- 3.3 Results and discussion -- 4. Study 3 -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Materials and procedure -- 4.3 Results and discussion -- 5. General conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1. Materials for Study 1 -- Version A -- Version B -- Appendix 2. Materials for Study 2 -- Version A -- Version B -- Appendix 3. Materials for Study 3 -- Testimony 1 -- Testimony 2 -- Testimony 3 -- Testimony 4 -- Testimony 5 -- Appendix 4. List of manner verbs by Testimony and translations provided by each interpreter -- Chapter 14. Applying language typology: Practical applications of research on typological contrasts between languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language typology, its relevance and applications -- 3. Morphosyntactic typologies applied -- 4. Applying semantic typology -- 5. Typological applications: Forensic linguistics and translation -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Afterword. Typologies and language use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contributions of linguistic typology -- 3. Expressing Manners of movement across language types.
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Subject Motion in language.
Motion in language.
Space and time in language.
Space and time in language.
Semantics -- Psychological aspects.
Semantics -- Psychological aspects.
Typology (Linguistics)
Typology (Linguistics)
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Motion and space across languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027246752 (DLC) 2017011745
ISBN 9789027265364 (pdf)
9027265364 (pdf)
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