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Motion Mappings: An Example

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier
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Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA.
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Abstract

Because of the attention given to overt language structure at the expense of associated cognitive constructions, the importance of domain mappings in theories of meaning and language has too often been overlooked. This paper gives a brief outline of the general issues, and studies one intriguing example in more depth: how we talk and think about the cultural notion of schedule in terms of a motion schema with moving points on imaginary scales. At the abstract level considered, it turns out that ‘strange’ reflexives occurring in grammatical constructions linked to this phenomenon are triggered by the same double target configuration found in cases of metonymy, counterfactuals, and mental space connections.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 107 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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