MÉTAPHORE GRAMMATICALE ET GÉOMETRIE IMAGINAIRE DU TEMPS EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ESPAGNOL
GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR AND IMAGINARY GEOMETRY OF TIME IN FRENCH AND SPANISH
Author(s): Antonio Pamies BertránSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, French Literature
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: cognitive linguistics; linguistic typology; grammatical metaphor; SPACE TO TIME metaphor; Spanish language; French language;
Summary/Abstract: French and Spanish possess many figurative expressions of TIME, which are conceptual mappings from the source domain of SPACE. These metaphors fit into more general models described by cognitive linguistics for other languages (e.g., Lakoff and Turner 1989; Lakoff 1993; Haspelmath 1997; Yu 1998; Radden 2011). Two main theoretical approaches can be distinguished in the treatment of this conceptual metaphor: those based on universalistic apriorisms and those based on empirical studies. While the former tend to extrapolate from English, reducing this mechanism to two or three basic "natural" models (e.g., Lakoff 1993), the latter rely on "exotic" languages, whose data are more complex and often contradict theoretical (speculative) principles. This contrastive work analyzes several associative models in two widely spoken Romance languages, within the general frame of the <SPACE TO TIME> conceptual metaphor, in order to bring out additional data and arguments related with this issue.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.
- Issue Year: XXIII/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 62-77
- Page Count: 16
- Language: French