Essays about: "fictive motion"

Found 2 essays containing the words fictive motion.

  1. 1. Non-Actual Motion Expressions in Language and Gesture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Linea Brink Andersen; [2020]
    Keywords : Cognitive semiotics Fictive motion Gesture Grounding Non-actual motion Phenomenology Subjective motion.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the phenomenon of non-actual motion (NAM) (Blomberg, 2014; Blomberg & Zlatev 2014), and its expression in language and gestures. It has been documented that many languages employ expressions of motion in descriptions of static scenarios (Amagawa, 1997; Blomberg, 2014; Matsumoto, 1996; Rojo & Valenzuela, 2003, 2009; Stosic & Sarda, 2009), here called NAM-expressions (NAM-Es). READ MORE

  3. 2. The expression of non-actual motion in Swedish sign language

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jonas Ekström; [2015]
    Keywords : Swedish sign language; fictive motion; non-actual motion; linguistic conventions; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The use of motion expressions to describe objects that are actually static (e.g. “The train tracks curves through the mountain”) has been of interest within the fields of linguistics and cognitive science for at least three decades (e.g. READ MORE