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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts

Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...

Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese

07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Politeness: Is there an East-West divide?

Brown and Levinson (1987 [1978]) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for studying cross-cultural and interlinguistic politeness...

Keywords: politeness, pragmalinguistics, socio-pragmatics, face, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

The lexical mapping of politeness in British English and Japanese

This paper proposes the study of British English and Japanese conceptualizations of politeness by means of a measurement of the semantic domains which arguably constrain the expressive choices of speakers of these languages...