Moving-Time and Moving-Ego Metaphors from a Translational and a Contrastive-Linguistic Perspective

• Authors: Mario Brdar , Rita Brdar-Szabó
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of two types of time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor. The latter metaphor appears to be far less well-entrenched in languages such as Croatian or Hungarian, i.e. some of its lexicalizations are less natural than their alternatives based on the Moving-Time metaphor, while some others are, unlike their English models, downright unacceptable. It is argued that some of the differences can be related to the status of the fictive motion construction and some restrictions on the choice of verbs in that construction.

Keywords

EN

conceptual metaphor; moving time; moving ego; fictive motion; translation; contrastive linguistics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 191-212

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Mario Brdar

• University of Osijek

author

Rita Brdar-Szabó

• ELTE, Budapest

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rela-2017-0012