How do people talk—and potentially think—about abstract concepts? Supported by
abundant linguistic evidence, Conceptual Metaphor Theory posits that people draw upon …

Предлагаемая вниманию читателя монография посвящена современному
междисциплинарному направлению, возникшему на стыке языкознания и …

10.2. 1 The English word before 109 10.2. 2 The English word after 109 10.2. 3 Earlier as
front in present day English 110 10.3 Deixis and deictic neutrality 111 10.3. 1 Front and …

We investigated whether writing direction and language activation influence how bilingual
speakers map time onto space. More specifically, we investigated how Arabic-English …

O crime, não raro, é apresentado como o novo epicentro da sociedade. Correlata ao
declínio dos valores e princípios democráticos e republicanos, assistimos a uma espécie de …

In this paper we present linguistic variation in the construal of “space” in different registers.
We focus in particular on variation in the lexicogrammatical construal of space across texts …

Across languages, time tends to be understood in terms of space. For instance, we might
think of time as an unstoppable train heading towards us when we hear'holidays are …

Conceptualizations of time John Benjamins Publishing Company HUMAN P R C ESSI N G C
OG NI TI VE Conceptualizations of Time Edited by Barbara LewandowskaTomaszczyk 52 …

This chapter deals with time conceptualization as evidenced in conventional metaphorical
expressions in MG. Although this book is primarily concerned with time conceptualization in …

This article examines two corpora composed of four discourse genres—oral interviews,
written interviews, newspaper articles, and non-fiction books—to explore the ways in which …