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- Clark, Nathaniel, et al.
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Iconic pitch expresses vertical space
- 2013
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Ingår i: Language and the creative mind. - Stanford : CSLI Publications. - 9781575866703 ; , s. 393-410
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene, 1967-
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Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved? : corpus analysis of real and imagined journeys
- 2010
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Ingår i: Review of Cognitive Linguistics. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins. - 1877-9751 .- 1877-976X. ; 8:1, s. 93-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper provides a corpus linguistic analysis of verbs included in English path-, road- and way-sentences. My claim is that many of the differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical patterns including these terms are related to a qualitative difference between real and imagined journeys. Both non-metaphorical and metaphorical instances go back to our experiences with real-world paths, roads and ways. Path and road-sentences are connected with motion along the specific artifacts that these terms refer to. Way-sentences refer to motion through space. Differences between prototypical and un-prototypical paths, roads and ways, however, and a close connection between prototypical instances and metaphorical meaning, result in differences between non-metaphorical and metaphorical patterns. The findings explain why the source domain verbs in metaphorical path- and road-sentences are more restricted than the verbs in the non-metaphorical sentences. They show why metaphorical ways, but hardly ever metaphorical paths and roads, are paved.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene, et al.
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Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings
- 2012
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Ingår i: Cognitive Linguistics. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 0936-5907 .- 1613-3641. ; 23:2, s. 251-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the relationship between people’s mental imagery for their experiences of paths and roads and the metaphorical use of path and road in discourse. We report the results of two studies, one a survey examining people’s mental imagery about their embodied experiences with paths and roads, with the second providing a corpus analysis of the ways path and road are metaphorically used in discourse. Our hypothesis is that both people’s mental imagery for path and road, and speakers’ use of these words in metaphorical contexts are strongly guided by their embodied understandings of real-world events related to travel on paths and roads. The results of these studies demonstrate how bodily experiences with artifacts partly constrains not only how specific conceptual metaphors emerge, but how different metaphorical understandings are applied in talk about abstract entities and events.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene, et al.
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Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings
- 2013
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Ingår i: Cognitive linguistics. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 9783110333886 - 9783110335255 ; , s. 81-102
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the relationship between people's mental imagery for their experiences of paths and roads and the metaphorical use of path and road in discourse. We report the results of two studies, one a survey examining people's mental imagery about their embodied experiences with paths and roads, with the second providing a corpus analysis of the ways path and road are metaphorically used in discourse. Our hypothesis is that both people's mental imagery for path and road, and speakers' use of these words in metaphorical contexts are strongly guided by their embodied understandings of real-world events related to travel on paths and roads. The results of these studies demonstrate how bodily experiences with artifacts partly constrains not only how specific conceptual metaphors emerge, but how different metaphorical understandings are applied in talk about abstract entities and events.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene
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From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Space and Time in Languages and Cultures II. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 978 90 272 2391 3 - 978 90 272 7360 4 ; , s. 329-349
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter compares spatial constructs in mental imagery to spatial constructs in non-metaphorical and metaphorical language. The study is based on a psycholinguistic survey of people’s mental imagery for paths and roads, and a previous corpus-linguistic investigation of path- and road-instances from the British National Corpus (the BNC) (see Johansson Falck 2010). The aim is to investigate if spatial path and road constructs in mental imagery focus on similar aspects as those in metaphorical language. The study shows that mental imagery and metaphorical language are more restricted than non-metaphorical language, and typically are related to the specific anticipations for bodily action that paths and roads afford. The focus is on function, which influences both direction and manner of motion.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene
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Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English : do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter?
- 2012. - 38
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Ingår i: Metaphor in use. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 978 90 272 2392 0 - 978 90 272 7346 8 ; , s. 109-134
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- English and Swedish, which are both Germanic languages spoken in similar cultures in the Western World, display many similarities with regard to the conceptual metaphors reflected in them. However, the way that the same conceptual metaphor is linguistically instantiated in both languages may be somewhat different. This chapter is a corpus-based analysis of metaphorical ‘path’, ‘road’, and ‘way’ sentences in English produced by speakers with British English as their first language (L1) and Swedish university students with Englishas their second language (L2). The aim is to see how these L2 speakers of English deal with differences at the level of linguistic metaphor in the two languages, and find out how important this level of organization really is.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene
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Narrow paths, difficult roads, and long ways : Travel through space and metaphorical meaning
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Construal of Spatial Meaning. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199641635 ; , s. 214-235
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is a corpus linguistic analysis of 1000 random path-, road-, and way-instances from the British National Corpus. The aim is to show that both non-metaphorical and metaphorical instances of these terms (e.g. the bushes had grown across the path and the path of green consumerism) are intimately connected with people’s embodied experiences of travel through space along paths, roads, or ways. This is evident from a) the coherent way in which sentences including these terms are generally structured, b) the differences between path- road-, and way-sentences at a more specific level of abstraction, and c) the similarities between non-metaphorical and metaphorical sentences including the same term (e.g. non-metaphorical path and metaphorical path). The image-schematic structures of these experiences create coherence in word use. Differences between paths, roads, and ways, and hence between journeys along these, lead to variation in spatial metaphorical meaning.
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- Johansson Falck, Marlene
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Temporal prepositions explained : Cross-linguistic analysis of English and Swedish unit of time landmarks
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cognitive Linguistic Studies. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 2213-8722 .- 2213-8730. ; 1:2, s. 271-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To what extent can factors such as the size of a unit of time landmark and zoomed in effects explain the patterns of temporal prepositions in English (Lindstromberg, 1998/2010)? How important are these factors cross-linguistically? This paper is a corpus linguistic analysis of unit of time landmarks in English, in and on instances, and in their Swedish equivalents, i and på instances.My aims are to investigate how temporal in and on relationships are construed in terms of spatial ones and to identify shared and differing patterns between these two closely related languages. Shared patterns may provide clues in regard to which factors are salient when time is construed in terms of space. Differing patterns highlight the fact that a given way of construing time in terms of space is not the only alternative. Systematicity at this level of abstraction is potentially useful for the second language (L2) learner.
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