Fictive Motion in English: An Elicitation Experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Diego Caroca ◽  
Huili Wang ◽  
Hanning Guo
Keyword(s):  
Fictive Motion

A Study on the Concept and Perception of the Fictive Motion

HAN-GEUL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-431
Author(s):  
Tae-sung Lim
Keyword(s):  
Fictive Motion

scholarly journals Standing up to the canoe: Competing cognitive biases in the encoding of stative spatial relations in a language with a single spatial preposition

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-841
Author(s):  
Åshild Næss
Keyword(s):  
Motion Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Fictive Motion ◽  
Search Domain

AbstractThis paper discusses how verbal directional markers are used to encode stative spatial relations in the Oceanic language Äiwoo. It argues that the apparent reversal of directional meaning in stative expressions, where ‘up’ is used in expressions meaning ‘underneath’, ‘down’ in expressions meaning ‘above’, and ‘out’ in expressions meaning ‘inside’, can be explained by a fictive motion analysis where the figure is construed as metaphorically moving towards the ground. It moreover argues that in expressions where motion leads to a resulting spatial configuration, where ‘up’ means ‘on top of’ rather than ‘underneath’, this reading is overridden by the so-called goal bias, whereby the resultant configuration is more cognitively salient than the motion producing it. It suggests that the linguistic construal of stative spatial relations may to some extent be correlated with the formal means of expression, where marking by adpositions favours a ‘search domain’ construal whereas encoding within the verb favours a ‘fictive path’ construal. It thus provides a new angle on the linguistic encoding of spatial relations, an area which has been subject to much research within cognitive linguistics, but which so far has paid little attention to the possibility of encoding stative spatial relations within the verb.

scholarly journals Perspective construal techniques in indirect non-referential naming

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-204
Author(s):  
M. I. Kiose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Reference Coordinate System ◽  
Complex Procedure ◽  
Focus Type ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
Reference Distance ◽  
Fictive Motion

The research explores the perspective construal techniques applied in predicate indirect noun groups in Russian. In this case, the discourse perspective is construed with a highly salient ob-ject of perspective in the construed frame of reference. To achieve this effect, the speaker / narrator chooses a particular type of predicate indirect noun groups, such as predicate con-structions with the verbs of fictive motion, appearance, and being (existence) or comparative constructions. Each of these construction types demonstrates its own linguistic and cognitive features, which are used to apply various perspectivization techniques to ensure that its inter-pretation will proceed successfully. To detect these techniques, a complex procedure is applied. Hand-selected fragments analysis followed by corpus statistic and correlation analysis help define the parameters and values in predicate indirect noun group constructions. These parameters are referential (bodily modus type, referent type, referent focus type), lexical (first / repeated lexeme use, type of attribute in pre-position, intensifier type in pre-position), syntactic (sentence initial / final position, position before a clause, co-reference distance in words and propositions) and textual ones (textual role, new microevent introduction). Vari-ance analysis has revealed a group of parameters typical for the studied construction types of predicate indirect noun groups. Parametric results allow describe the typical techniques of object mental scanning, object construal, frames of reference (coordinate system) construal. These include the techniques of mental path shortening / prolongation, embodiment con- strual alleviation / constraining, animated / non-animated object construal, stability / instabil-ity of frames of reference, etc.

scholarly journals Verbs in Fictive Motion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Tadeusz Waliński
Keyword(s):  
Fictive Motion
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