Temporal Expressions in English and Spanish: Influence of Typology and Metaphorical Construal

Valenzuela, Javier; Carrión, Daniel Alcaraz

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.543933

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“…Time as metaphoric expressions has been studied rigorously in many languages, including English. There have been some studies focusing on space as the metaphoric expression of time (Ahrens & Huang, 2002;Boroditsky, 2000) and comparing time expressions in English with other languages, e.g., Chinese (Chen, 2014), Spanish (Valenzuela & Alcaraz Carrión, 2020). Boroditsky (2000) Valenzuela & Alcaraz Carrión (2020) also suggested that English more frequently uses deictic expressions with directional language than Spanish.…”

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“…The studies of time collocations are rarely done, especially in the EFL settings. Although several studies have concerned the comparison of time expressions in the L1 and English as the target language (e.g., Chen, 2014;Golfam et al, 2019;Valenzuela & Alcaraz Carrión, 2020), little is known about the familiarity of EFL learners towards collocations of time which is also important in mastering the target language since time expressions are basic expressions in daily life.…”

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Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

Oktavianti

2022

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The present study attempted to investigate EFL students' familiarity with collocations of time (i.e., verb + time and time + noun) in the English language. As many as 42 students were enrolled in this study as participants in which 23 participants were fifth-semester students and 19 were seventh-semester students. To collect the data, the questionnaire was designed and developed based on corpus search results in terms of the verb collocations (verb + time) and noun collocates (time + noun). The data were collected by distributing questionnaires confirming their familiarity with some setlists of time collocations. The results showed that most students are already familiar with many time collocations, either verb + time or time + noun combinations. However, some high-frequency collocations were less familiar among EFL learners. This result should be considered by introducing more intensively learners to English collocations, especially collocations of time.

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

Oktavianti

2022

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“…In other words, the way one conceptualizes time may be revealed by such manual movements. For instance, an increasing number of studies on speakers' temporal gestures have shown that across cultures and languages people conceptualize time differently (e.g., Casasanto & Jasmin, 2012;Cooperrider and Núñez, 2009;Gu, Mol et al, 2017;Gu, Zheng et al, 2019a;Kita et al, 2001;Le Guen & Pool Balam, 2012;Núñez & Sweetser, 2006;Sullivan & Bui, 2016;Valenzuela & Carrión, 2020).…”

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“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data

Lin

2022

Lang. cogn.

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This paper investigates the relationship between fingers and time representations in naturalistic Chinese Sign Language (CSL). Based on a CSL Corpus (Shanghai Variant, 2016–), we offer a thorough description of finger configurations for time expressions from 63 deaf signers, including three main types: digital, numeral incorporation, and points-to-fingers. The former two were further divided into vertical and horizontal fingers according to the orientation of fingertips. The results showed that there were interconnections between finger representations, numbers, ordering, and time in CSL. Vertical fingers were mainly used to quantify time units, whereas horizontal fingers were mostly used for sequencing or ordering events, and their forms could be influenced by Chinese number characters and the vertical writing direction. Furthermore, the use of points-to-fingers (e.g., pointing to the thumb, index, or little finger) formed temporal connectives in CSL and could be patterned to put a conversation in order. Additionally, CSL adopted similar linguistic forms in sequential time and adverbs of reason (e.g., cause and effect: events that happened earlier and events that happen later). Such a cause-and-effect relationship was a special type of temporal sequence. In conclusion, fingers are essential for time representation in CSL and their forms are biologically and culturally shaped.

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“…Li (2015) explored the phraseology behavior of the noun time and figured out some patterns of metaphorical mappings, such as TIME IS MONEY, TIME IS MOTION, etc. Research on time expressions has also been conducted to examine other languages, usually in comparison to the English language, such as Chen (2014), Fuhrman et al (2011), Golfam et al (2019), Valenzuela & Alcaraz Carrión (2020). These studies compare time orientation and time expressions in several languages proving that each language and each culture has distinctive ways of describing time-related concepts.…”

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Collocations of verb + time in English and verb + waktu in Indonesian: A Corpus-Driven Study of Time Metaphors

Prayogi

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Winarti

2022

Ahmad Dahlan J. English Studies

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Time is one of the salient concepts in human life since we live and act in time. Thus, research investigating time is always intriguing yet perplexing. This study aims to describe the collocations of verbs with the most frequent lexical item for temporal concept, i.e., time. The present study also compared the collocations to those in Indonesian counterparts, that is verb + waktu. This is a corpus-driven study using two reference corpora, Corpus of Contemporary American English for English data, and Leipzig Corpus Collection for Indonesian data. The association measure used to identify the verb collocates is Mutual Information (MI) and the results of collocates in both languages were compared. The result of the study shows that there are 15 most frequent verb collocates of time and waktu for both English and Indonesian, e.g., have, spend, take, membutuhkan, memanfaatkan, memerlukan, etc. Of all these collocates, there are some similarities and differences that can be mapped. The similarities are associated with basic mappings of time metaphor, e.g., TIME IS MONEY, TIME IS A RESOURCE, TIME IS A COMMODITY, and TIME IS MOTION. Despite the similarity, some differences are also identified which might be affected by limited number of verb collocates analyzed in the present study (e.g., TIME IS A FLEXIBLE OBJECT, TIME IS A CONTAINER, TIME IS A BEING, TIME IS A VICTIM). The results of the study can be used as a reference for teachers in teaching or designing teaching materials on time expressions or time metaphor.

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Temporal Expressions in English and Spanish: Influence of Typology and Metaphorical Construal

Cited by 8 publications

References 99 publications

Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data

Collocations of verb + time in English and verb + waktu in Indonesian: A Corpus-Driven Study of Time Metaphors

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