Yutian Qin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yutian Qin is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. Approaching the end of the time metaphor game: Some constructions with the Moving-Ego metaphors from a cross-linguistic perspective Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 252–278 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of the two types of time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor, in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese and Turkish. The latter type of metaphor appears to be far less natural in these… read more
2025 Bitter Monday and sweet Friday — The bidirectional relationship between taste and time Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1, pp. 130–158 | Article
The conceptualization of time is based on the physical experience in space (Vyvyan Evans 2004). Linguistically and psychologically, time is represented in two deictic spacetime metaphors: the ego-moving metaphor and the time-moving metaphor (Herbert H. Clark 1973). In the current research, two… read more