The Role of Motion Verbs in Conveying Path-Related Information in English and Slovene Fictive Motion Expressions

Q1 Arts and Humanities

ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries Pub Date : 2018-11-30 DOI:10.4312/ELOPE.15.2.63-78

Frančiška Lipovšek

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Abstract

The paper presents a study on fictive motion (FM) uses of motion verbs in English and slovene from the point of view of conveying path-related information. An FM expression describes a static scene in terms of motion (e.g. The road weaves through a range of hills). Motion verbs in FM uses do not describe actual motion events, but may refer to certain properties of the path by virtue of their meanings. English and slovene FM expressions exhibit different behaviours in this respect. Many English verbs display meaning components that can be metonymically mapped onto the properties of the path. The meanings of slovene verbs are less specific, so that such properties need to be expressed verb-externally in slovene FM expressions.

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英语和斯洛文尼亚语虚拟动作表达中动作动词在传递路径相关信息中的作用

本文从传递路径相关信息的角度对英语和斯洛文尼亚语中动态动词的动态使用进行了研究。FM表达用动态来描述静态场景(例如，道路蜿蜒穿过一系列山丘)。FM使用中的运动动词不描述实际的运动事件，但可以根据其含义引用路径的某些属性。英语和斯洛文尼亚语FM表达在这方面表现出不同的行为。许多英语动词显示的意义组件可以转喻地映射到路径的属性上。斯洛文尼亚语动词的含义不太具体，因此这些属性需要在斯洛文尼亚语FM表达式中以动词形式外部表示。

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ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.70

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16 weeks

期刊介绍： ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research articles, studies and essays that address issues of English language, literature, teaching and translation. The guest editors, Jason Blake and Michelle Gadpaille, warmly invite contributors to submit original research for a special issue of the journal in honour of Margaret Atwood’s 80th birthday. Papers are solicited that focus on Atwood’s 21st-century work (excluding film and television adaptations). Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Experiments in short prose and cross-generic forms Eco-critical engagement in prose or fiction; Apocalyptic Atwood Reception across cultures, languages and generations; global Atwood Translation and stylistic studies of 21st century works Poetic legacy Interdisciplinary approaches Humour.