[Corpora-List] looking for spatial metaphors

[William Fletcher]

Dear Ilze,

Teenie Matlock has done a number of studies in this area, including these early ones:

Maglio, P. P., & Matlock, T. (1998). Metaphors we surf the web by. Proceedings of  Workshop on 
Personalized and Social Navigation in Information Space (pp.1-9). Swedish Institute of 
Computer Science. Stockholm, Sweden.

http://foryouremergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Maglio-Matlock.pdf

Matlock, T. & Maglio, P. P. (1996). Apparent motion on the World Wide Web. Proceedings of the 
18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.

See publications list at
http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/tmatlock/tmatlock_vita.pdf

and papers that link to her work at 
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=teenie+matlock+web+metaphor&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

BTW, my impression is that the Web is conceived as a broadcast medium, so that "on the net" is comparable to 
"on the radio" or "on tv".  The same comparable choice of preposition holds true for languages like Spanish 
(en), German (im) and Dutch (op).  Is that true in Latvia as well?

Regards,
Bill Fletcher


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 22:36:19 +0100
>From: corpora-bounces at uib.no (on behalf of Ilze Black <black at eecs.qmul.ac.uk>)
>Subject: [Corpora-List] looking for spacial metaphors  
>To: corpora at uib.no
>
>Dear List,
>
>I am a PhD student and quite new to this list but I hope you dont mind 
>me asking for help here. I have just started my research on spacial 
>perception of the Internet. In my initial phase I am trying to establish 
>if there are any relevant study been done on a similar questions and in 
>particular on any spacial metaphors. In English we often say 'on' the 
>Internet, while in Latvia, for example, they say 'in' the Internet. What 
>drives these linguistic metaphors? May be someone has some suggestion on 
>previous ethnographic studies, method I am thinking to use. Or other 
>methodology or models I should look at? Does anyone has any thoughts on 
>this? I am also looking to collect spacial metaphors used of the 
>Internet space in different languages. Would love to hear your thoughts, 
>suggestions and metaphors.
>Thank you in advance and looking forward to hear.
>
>Ilze Black
>black at eecs.qmul.ac.uk
>
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