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Motion and Space across Languages
Theory and applications
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This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 July 2017
Published online on 27 July 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Editor and contributors
- Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion researchLeonard Talmy | pp. 1–12
- Introduction. Motion and semantic typology: A hot old topic with exciting caveatsIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | pp. 13–36
- Part I. Delving into motion event typology
- Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary lookKimi Akita | pp. 39–60
- Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languagesMaya Hickmann, Helen Engemann, Efstathia Soroli, Henriëtte Hendriks and Coralie Vincent | pp. 61–94
- Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and ThaiYo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita and Kiyoko Takahashi | pp. 95–122
- Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology: The case of Aragonese and CatalanIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Alberto Hijazo-Gascón and María-Teresa Moret-Oliver | pp. 123–150
- Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions: A complex typological shiftMonica Mosca | pp. 151–176
- Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in EnglishJudith Huber | pp. 177–204
- Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experienceJohan Blomberg | pp. 205–228
- Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genresRosario Caballero | pp. 229–254
- 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?Şeyda Özçalışkan, Lauren J. Stites and Samantha N. Emerson | pp. 257–278
- Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language: Looking back and forwardTeresa Cadierno | pp. 279–300
- Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages: Deixis in Spanish as a second languageAlberto Hijazo-Gascón | pp. 301–328
- Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between? A L2 learner’s thinking for speaking in her L1 and L2 over 14 yearsGale Stam | pp. 329–366
- Chapter 13. On the reception of translations: Exploring the impact of typological differences on legal contextsAna Rojo and Paula Cifuentes-Férez | pp. 367–398
- Chapter 14. Applying language typology: Practical applications of research on typological contrasts between languagesLuna Filipović | pp. 399–418
- Afterword. Typologies and language useDan I. Slobin | pp. 419–446
- Author index | pp. 447–452
- Subject index | pp. 453–457
- Language index | pp. 459–460
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