Ren Imai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ren Imai is involved.
Article
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