Space and Time in Language

All human activity takes place in space and time in one way or another, which is consequently reflected in our language. We not only talk about space and time but also cannot but ground our linguistic activity in space and time. Furthermore, space and time are closely, although asymmetrically, related in our experience and we often think and talk about one in terms of the other. Specifically, time is conceived in terms of space far more frequently than vice versa. The volume contains a selection of essays that are revised versions of papers presented at the 23rd annual conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (CALS), entitled «Space and Time in Language: Language in Space and Time», which took place from 21 to 23 May 2009 in Osijek (Croatia).

Autorentext

Mario Brdar, Marija Omazic, ViSnja Pavicic Takac, Tanja Gradecak-Erdeljic and Gabrijela Buljan teach various courses in English linguistics, translation studies and English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology in the Department of English at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.

Inhalt

Contents: Mario Brdar/Marija Omazi /Vinja Pavi i Takä/Tanja Grade ak-Erdelji /Gabrijela Buljan: Introduction - Günter Radden: Spatial time in the West and the East - Tanja Grade ak-Erdelji : Spatial and temporal relations in the conceptual metaphor Events are Things - Anuka tambuk: A corpus-based analysis of metaphors motivated by the spatial meaning of the Croatian lexeme daleko ('far(away)') - Jodi L. Sandford: The spatial relations of color: Linguistic categorization of Light-Dark and Near-Far - Daniela Katunar/Kreimir ojat: Morphosemantic fields in the building of the Croatian WordNet: The Verbs of Movement - Marija Brala-Vukanovi : Where is o : Croatian prepositions as vectors - Vesna Deeljin: Spatial deictic elements in Italian and Croatian - Barbara Kerovec: Successive prepositions in Croatian as translational equivalents of Turkish semi-postpositions: ungrammaticality or necessity? - Renata Geld/Stela Letica Krevelj: Centrality of space in the strategic construal of up in English particle verbs - Marica ila Mikuli /Sanda Lucija Udier: Space, spatiality and spatial relations in Croatian as a second and foreign language - Bogdanka Pavelin Lei : The metaphorization of space in speech and gesture - Gabrijela Buljan/Alma Van ura: Waltzing and snaking through physical space: English denominal verb conversions on the lexical-constructional interface - Goran Schmidt/Marija Omazi : Time metaphors in English and Croatian: A corpus-based study - Jadranka Zlomisli /Vlatka Ivi /Blaenka otari : Non-native speakers lost in space but found in time - Anita Pavi Pintari : Time in fictive orality (Based on Croatian and German novels) - Aleksandar Kavgi : Time and tense in United States presidents' inaugural speeches from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics - Mirjana Mandi : The extension of meaning of temporal adverbs in Serbian-speaking children aged 1;6 to 4;0 - arolta Godni Vi i : Native and foreign places in travel writing: The Guardian travel section - Vinja Pavi i Takä/Vesna Bagari : Foreign language acquisition in space and time: A comparative analysis of the Croatian foreign language acquisition context - Renata Fox: Language and ideology in time and space.