How do Mandarin speakers conceptualize time? Beyond the horizontal and vertical dimensions

Sun, Juan; Zhang, Qiang

doi:10.1007/s10339-020-00987-3

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“…Chinese businesses, and individual content creators have taken up WOAs to keep Chinese Australians informed about local and global affairs. WOAs are recognised as the predominant news source among Chinese-speaking communities and play a critical role in both informing and shaping public opinions(Sun 2018;Hsu 2023). The economic model of the majority…”

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WeChat and the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum: Key actors, public opinions, misinformation and disinformation

Yang,

Fordyce,

Heemsbergen

2024

Preprint

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WeChat is a Chinese-language social media service. In 2020, WeChat had 690,000 accounts in Australia with 500,000 being active daily (Taylor 2023). The platform remains as a key news resource for Chinese Australians and Chinese migrants within Australia. Between 8 January 2023 and 7 December 2023, the Voice Referendum was the topic of 262 Chinese-language news articles published from Australian-based WeChat news accounts. Discussions on the Voice peaked between September and October 2023, with 3-4 articles published daily that engaged with the topic. Within the WeChat userbase, a substantial segment of the Chinese Australians expressed a preference for voting No, including 56% of comments collected from relevant articles and 92% of the comments originating from short videos. Analysis of 2,715 user comments on WeChat indicates that users predominantly engaged with short videos promoting a ‘No’ vote against the referendum proposal. In comparison, videos promoting ‘Yes’ votes in favour of the proposal saw significantly lower engagement. The study has identified the rising influence of short videos published through WeChat’s Channel. There were 8 short-video accounts contributing 20 videos discussing the Voice referendum. The surge in short videos has created a space where misinformation and disinformation thrive. As we enter 2024, we continue observing the Voice referendum featuring WeChat’s public posts, particularly regarding the potential implications of this event on the upcoming 2025 Australian federal election.

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WeChat and the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum: Key actors, public opinions, misinformation and disinformation

Yang,

Fordyce,

Heemsbergen

2024

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When time stands upright: STEARC effects along the vertical axis

Dalmaso

Schnapper

Vicovaro

2022

Psychological Research

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According to the spatial–temporal association of response codes (STEARC) effect, time can be spatially represented from left to right. However, exploration of a possible STEARC effect along the vertical axis has yielded mixed results. Here, in six experiments based on a novel paradigm, we systematically explored whether a STEARC effect could emerge when participants were asked to classify the actual temporal duration of a visual stimulus. Speeded manual responses were provided using a vertically oriented response box. Interestingly, although a top-to-bottom time representation emerged when only two temporal durations were employed, an inverted bottom-to-top time representation emerged when a denser set of temporal durations, arranged along a continuum, was used. Moreover, no STEARC effects emerged when participants classified the shapes of visual stimuli rather than their temporal duration. Finally, three additional experiments explored the STEARC effect along the horizontal axis, confirming that the paradigm we devised successfully replicated the standard left-to-right representation of time. These results provide supporting evidence for the notion that temporal durations can be mapped along the vertical axis, and that such mapping appears to be relatively flexible.

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Spatial conceptual mapping of words with temporal semantics

Malyshevskaya

Gallo

Pokhoday

et al. 2022

Современная Зарубежная Психология

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Unlike concrete words related to sensory perception (e.g., hear, sun), abstract words (including the words with temporal semantics, e.g., year, tomorrow) do not have direct embodied sensory correlates. Nevertheless, existing research indicates that abstract concepts’ representations make regular reference to sensorimotor processes, e.g., visual perception. For example, regular expressions such as “the future is ahead” or “the flow of time” are common in different languages reflecting a relatively universal nature of space-time correspondences. Moreover, these regular correspondences are commonly demonstrated in experimental studies; for example — by registering attentional displacement during processing of past and future related words. Here, the main theoretical approaches as well as existing experimental data documenting neurocognitive foundations of space-time representations are reviewed. A detailed overview of research on spatial-conceptual mapping of time concepts in three-dimensional visual space is offered. We also consider features of space-time associations that reflect linguistic and socio-cultural differences. In conclusion, the main areas of current and future that will allow an integration of the existing data within a common theoretical framework are defined.

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How do Mandarin speakers conceptualize time? Beyond the horizontal and vertical dimensions

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

WeChat and the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum: Key actors, public opinions, misinformation and disinformation

WeChat and the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum: Key actors, public opinions, misinformation and disinformation

When time stands upright: STEARC effects along the vertical axis

Spatial conceptual mapping of words with temporal semantics

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