This paper provides a corpus linguistic analysis of verbs included in English path-, road- and way-sentences. My claim is that many of the differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical patterns including these terms are related to a qualitative difference between real and imagined journeys. Both non-metaphorical and metaphorical instances go back to our experiences with real-world paths, roads and ways. Path and road-sentences are connected with motion along the specific artifacts that these terms refer to. Way-sentences refer to motion through space. Differences between prototypical and un-prototypical paths, roads and ways, however, and a close connection between prototypical instances and metaphorical meaning, result in differences between non-metaphorical and metaphorical patterns. The findings explain why the source domain verbs in metaphorical path- and road-sentences are more restricted than the verbs in the non-metaphorical sentences. They show why metaphorical ways, but hardly ever metaphorical paths and roads, are paved.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-34592 |
Date | January 2010 |
Creators | Johansson Falck, Marlene |
Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, Amsterdam : John Benjamins |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
Format | application/pdf |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Relation | Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2010, 8:1, s. 93-122 |
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