Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

Waliński, Jacek Tadeusz

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“…temporal representations found in the BNC for the semantic attribute of motion medium is congruent with observations made in earlier studies (Waliński, 2013(Waliński, , 2014a) that expressing spatial distance in temporal terms is a common way of denoting spatial extents in the semantic context of motion events.…”

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“…Normally, even if we do not know the exact metric distance to our workplace or favorite shopping centre, we know how long it takes to get there-by whichever means of transport we use to reach our usual destinations. In the light of previous studies (Waliński, 2013(Waliński, , 2014a), it appears that in the semantic context of motion events (Talmy, 2000a(Talmy, , 2000b, we tend to express spatial distance in temporal terms. This provides a highly versatile means of expressing distance according to the speaker's subjective profiling needs, irrespective of separation in the metric terms.…”

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Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance

Waliński¹

2016

Human Cognitive Processing

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This study demonstrates an overall proportion between spatial and temporal representations of distance for the semantic attribute of motion medium on the basis of objectively verifiable frequencies of language patterns found in the British NationalCorpus. It demonstrates that in the semantic context of mediummediated expressions of distance English speakers have a tendency to denote distance in space both in spatial and temporal terms, with temporal representations being used almost as frequently as spatial ones. This study complements earlier findings on the complementarily of spatial and temporal representations of distance in motion events for the semantic attributes of motion manner and instrument. Taken together, the results indicate that in the semantic context of motion events, space and time, are correlated metonymically rather than being asymmetrically dependent.

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Section: Medium Of Motionsupporting

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Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance

Waliński¹

2016

Human Cognitive Processing

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“…Different views on time and temporality in language are discussed in ample literature (e.g. Evans, 2003Evans, , 2013Jaszczolt, 2009;Jaszczolt & de Saussure, 2013;Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & Kosecki, 2014;Waliński, 2014, to mention but a few recent books) devoted to the perception and conceptions of time reflected in linguistic construal.…”

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Inconsistencies in Temporal Metaphors: Is Time a Phenomenon of the Third Kind?

Waliński

2020

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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This paper discusses the problem of inconsistencies in the metaphorical conceptualizations of time that involve motion within the framework of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). It demonstrates that the TIME AS A PURSUER metaphor contrasts with the reverse variant TIME AS AN OBJECT OF PURSUIT, just as the MOVING TIME metaphor contrasts with the MOVING OBSERVER variant. Such metaphorical conceptualizations of time functioning as pairs of minimally differing variants based on Figure-Ground reversal are, strictly speaking, inconsistent with one another. Looking at these inconsistencies from a wider perspective suggests that time may belong to a separate category of conceptual phenomena. This paper puts forward a proposal to approach time from the perspective of “phenomena of the third kind”, which according to Keller’s thesis include conceptual establishments resulting from human cognition, but not of human design.

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“…Different perspectives on time and temporality in language and cognition have been presented in abundant literature (e.g. Evans 2013;Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Kosecki 2014;Moore 2014;Waliński 2014 to mention but a few publications).…”

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Time Metaphorization: Duality of Time as a Pursuer vis-à-vis Object of Pursuit

Waliński

2021

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This paper discusses the duality of metaphorical conceptualizations of time focusing in particular on time as a pursuerand time as an object of pursuit metaphors, which are based the Figure–Ground reversal of each other. Using examples taken from the British National Corpus, it argues that these metaphorical conceptualizations of time are inconsistent with each other. This inconsistency resembles the discrepancy between the moving time and moving observer metaphors, which are, in strict terms, also inconsistent with each other. Looking at such contrasts between metaphorical representations of time from a broader perspective suggests that the concept of time arises from different, both physical and socio-cultural, dimensions of human experience.

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Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

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Cited by 4 publications

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Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance

Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance

Inconsistencies in Temporal Metaphors: Is Time a Phenomenon of the Third Kind?

Time Metaphorization: Duality of Time as a Pursuer vis-à-vis Object of Pursuit

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