A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …

In this paper we examine how English and Mandarin speakers think about time, and we test
how the patterns of thinking in the two groups relate to patterns in linguistic and cultural …

Ten years ago, the hegemonic idea was that language was a kind of independent module
within the mind, a sort of" print-out" of whatever cognitive activity was taking place, but …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on work examining the role that spatial metaphors
and basic spatial representations play in constructing representations of time across …

Why do people use spatial language to describe social relationships? In particular, to what
extent do they anchor their thoughts about friendship in terms of space? Three experiments …

This article analyzes temporal frames of reference that are metaphorically related to
experiences of movement and location. Two path-configured temporal frames of reference …

Many metaphor theorists argue that our mental experience of time is grounded in our
understanding of space, including motion through space. Results from recent experiments …

This work investigates how we process and represent event duration in on-line language
comprehension. Specifically, it examines how events of different duration are processed and …

The present research concerns the idea of an “embodied concept” and asks whether a
concept as such is fundamentally grounded in implicit sensorimotor representations or is …

Aspect expresses information about how events unfold in time. In English, imperfective
aspect is known to widen the temporal scope of the event described, but little is known about …