Time Metaphorization: Duality of Time as a Pursuer vis-à-vis Object of Pursuit

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.19.1.03

J. Waliński

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Abstract

This paper discusses the duality of metaphorical conceptualizations of time focusing in particular on time as a pursuerand time as an object of pursuit metaphors, which are based the Figure–Ground reversal of each other. Using examples taken from the British National Corpus, it argues that these metaphorical conceptualizations of time are inconsistent with each other. This inconsistency resembles the discrepancy between the moving time and moving observer metaphors, which are, in strict terms, also inconsistent with each other. Looking at such contrasts between metaphorical representations of time from a broader perspective suggests that the concept of time arises from different, both physical and socio-cultural, dimensions of human experience.

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时间隐喻:时间作为追求者与-à-vis追求者的二元性

本文讨论了时间隐喻概念化的二元性，重点讨论了时间作为追求者和时间作为追求者的隐喻性，这两种隐喻性是基于人与地的相互倒转。本文以英国国家语料库中的例子为例，论证了这些时间的隐喻概念化是相互矛盾的。这种不一致类似于移动的时间和移动的观察者隐喻之间的不一致，严格来说，它们也彼此不一致。从更广泛的角度来看，时间的隐喻表征之间的这种对比表明，时间的概念源于人类经验的不同方面，包括物理和社会文化方面。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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