23.3090, Qs: Space/Time Reference in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

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Subject: 23.3090, Qs: Space/Time Reference in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:49:32
From: Keyi Sun [keyi.sun at pg.canterbury.ac.nz]
Subject: Space/Time Reference in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

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I am a phd student in psycholinguistics, recently studying how time-
related metaphors are embodied into directions. I am using English 
speakers as a control group. one of the participants is from Denmark, 
who can speak Danish, English, and understands Norwegian and 
Swedish, and I am considering how the other languages might have 
effects on his perception of time-direction relationships.

As in English, we know future is front, and past is back, but this 
direction-time relation differs depending on languages. Do Danish, 
Norwegian and Swedish have a similar structure between space and 
time? Or do any one of them might have a future-back, past-front 
relationship, or any lexcial item in time-related expression might use 
different word? For example, in some languages the expression 'a 
week front' may mean a week ago, but in other languages it may mean 
a week later.

Any resources related to this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics






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