Time and speed: Where do speed adjectives come from?

Autor:	Vladimir A. Plungian, Ekaterina Rakhilina
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Metonymy Spacetime Low speed Unit of time Norm (mathematics) Developmental and Educational Psychology Historical linguistics Slavic languages Language and Linguistics Linguistics Natural language
Zdroj:	Russian Linguistics. 37:347-359
ISSN:	1572-8714 0304-3487
DOI:	10.1007/s11185-013-9117-7
Popis:	The article examines the relationship between time and space in language on the basis of adjectives denoting high or low speed in Russian and other (mostly Slavic) languages. In physics the notion of speed is defined in terms of time and space (distance per time unit). It is argued, however, that speed in natural language is a primarily temporal concept involving the comparison of the temporal properties of a ‘target situation’ with those of a ‘norm’. Speed terms are shown to develop their own metaphors and metonymies, subsequently becoming connectors and intensifying markers. This argument has important theoretical implications insofar as it demonstrates that the domain of time is less dependent on space than the traditional view might indicate.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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