Fictive Motion in English,Chinese and Spanish:an Elicitation

发布时间：2022-12-10 14:23

　　After Talmy’s（1983）seminal work,this kind of motion expressions,known as fictive motion-sentences,have received much attention in cognitive and psychological oriented linguistic studies.The reason for such interest lies in the rather paradoxical semantic phenomenon that fictive motion sentences exhibit: Why do we tend to describe static situations in dynamic terms?The present thesis is an attempt to contribute to the ongoing study of the linguistic realization of fictive motion across typologica... 

【文章页数】：56 页

【学位级别】：硕士

【文章目录】：
Abstract
1 Introduction
    1.1 Research background
    1.2 Research objectives
    1.3 Research questions
    1.4 Layout of the thesis
2 Literature Review
    2.1 Talmy's Motion Typology
    2.2 Fictive Motion
    2.3 Enactive Perception
    2.4 Mental Scanning
    2.5 Psycholinguistic and behavioral studies
    2.6 Linguistic Studies
        2.6.1 The expression of FM in English and Japanese
        2.6.2 The expression of FM in English and Spanish
        2.6.3 Blomberg's study of FM in Swedish, French and Thai
    2.7 Summary
3 Theoretical Framework
4 Methodology
    4.1 Materials
    4.2 Participants
    4.3 Method
    4.4 Hypotheses
5 Results
    5.1. Results obtained from Spanish Participants
    5.2. Results obtained from English Participants
    5.3 Results obtained from Chinese Participants
6 Discussion
7 Conclusion
8 References
9 Appendix
    9.1 Description of the stimuli according to the order of presentation during the elicitation task
    9.2 FM-expressions produced by participants during the elicitation task
        9.2.1 English Participants
        9.2.2 Spanish Participants
        9.2.3 Chinese participants
    9.3 Type of stimuli that elicited the highest number of FM-expressions



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