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Does the road go up the mountain? Fictive motion between linguistic conventions and cognitive motivations
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In: ISSN: 1612-4782 ; EISSN: 1612-4790 ; Cognitive Processing ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01241342 ; Cognitive Processing, Springer Verlag, 2015, ⟨10.1007/s10339-015-0723-8⟩ (2015)
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International audience ; Fictive Motion (FM) characterizes the use of dynamic expressions to describe static scenes. This phenomenon is crucial in terms of cognitive motivations for language use; several explanations have been proposed to account for it, among which mental simulation (Talmy 2000) and visual scanning (Matlock 2004a). The aims of this paper are to test these competing explanations and identify language-specific constraints. To do this, we compared the linguistic strategies for expressing several types of static configurations in four languages, French, Italian, German and Serbian, with an experimental setup (59 participants). The experiment yielded significant differences for motion-affordance vs no motion-affordance, for all 4 languages. Significant differences between languages included mean frequency of FM expressions. In order to refine the picture, and more specifically to disentangle the respective roles of language-specific conventions and language-independent (i.e. possibly cognitive) motivations, we completed our study with a corpus approach (besides the four initial languages, we added English and Polish). The corpus study showed low frequency of FM across languages, but a higher frequency and translation ratio for some FM types – among which those best accounted for by enactive perception. The importance of enactive perception could thus explain both the universality of FM and the fact that language-specific conventions appear mainly in very specific contexts – the ones furthest from enaction.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; enactive perception; fictive motion; language; space; visual scanning
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01241342/document
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0723-8
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01241342
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01241342/file/Stosic%20et%20al.%20%282015%29.pdf
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The division of labour between posture verbs and fictive motion in the expression of static location
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In: Variation in the expression of space and motion within and across languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00982125 ; Variation in the expression of space and motion within and across languages, Dec 2012, Paris, France (2012)
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The Many Ways to be Located in French and Serbian : the Role of Fictive Motion in the Expression of Static Location
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In: Space and Time in Language and Literature ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00482170 ; M. Brala Vukovic & L. Gruic Grmusa. Space and Time in Language and Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.39-60, 2009 (2009)
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Les compléments spatiaux dynamiques détachés en tête : analyse des compléments en "par" et "à travers" dans la perspective de l'encadrement du discours
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In: Les constructions détachées : entre langue et discours ; Les constructions détachées ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00272901 ; Les constructions détachées, Jun 2005, Timisoara, Roumanie. pp.41-56 (2005)
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