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Analysis of Orientation Paths in Persian Fictive Motion within the Framework of Cognitive Semantics [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2022
Fictive motion, a figurative motion of an entity conjured up as a continuous motion of a stationary abstract object, plays a key role in language and caption (Talmy, 2000a). Accordingly, fictive motion paths and orientation paths were subject to scrutiny
Mahsa Nikabadi   +2 more
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Fictive Motion and Intersubjectivity in Phenomenology

open access: yesDEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science, 2018
Li-hong SHI, She-ru ZHANG
exaly   +3 more sources

The Semiotics of the Sacred space: A Critical Approach to the Production of Space in the Yārsān Religion [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2021
The current paper aims at investigating the strategies of spatial production and representation in the Yārsān religion by focusing on a sacred scripture entitled bārga bārga. To this purpose, firstly the strategies employed for locating a referent in the
Rahman Veisi Hasar
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The roles of motion, gesture, and embodied action in the processing of mathematical concepts

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This article discusses perspective and frame of reference in the metaphorical description of mathematical concepts in terms of motions, gestures, and embodied actions. When a mathematical concept is described metaphorically in terms of gestures, embodied
Omid Khatin-Zadeh   +5 more
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Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization

open access: yesFrontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022
Vertebrate locomotion presents a major challenge for maintaining visual acuity due to head movements resulting from the intimate biomechanical coupling with the propulsive musculoskeletal system.
Hans Straka   +2 more
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Fictive Motion in English and Spanish

open access: yes, 2008
This paper analyzes fictive motion expressions in English and Spanish with the twofold aim of (a) finding out whether the differences that have been reported in the expression of motion in English and Spanish also apply to fictive motion, and (b ...
Valenzuela Manzanares, Javier   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fictive Motion in Chinese and English Tourist Guidebooks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study focuses on the usage of fictive motion in tourist guidebooks. The analysis for the study draws on the theories of image schema and metaphorical extension (Johnson, 1987; Lakoff, 1987 & 1989). Fictive motion is often used to depict the features
Tsai, Peggy Wei-lun   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Expression verbale du mouvement fictif et effectif

open access: yesCorela, 2016
Verbal structuring of fictive and actual motionFictive and actual motion phenomena are generally structured via prepositional and verbal items which delineate the linguistic realisation of path constructions.
Aurélie Barnabé
doaj   +1 more source

Motor activation in literal and non literal sentences: does time matter?

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Despite the impressive amount of evidence showing involvement of the sensorimotor systems in language processing, important questions remain unsolved among which the relationship between non literal uses of language and sensorimotor activation.
Cristina eCacciari   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neuromechanical Model of Rat Hindlimb Walking with Two-Layer CPGs

open access: yesBiomimetics, 2019
This work demonstrates a neuromechanical model of rat hindlimb locomotionundergoing nominal walking with perturbations. In the animal, two types of responses toperturbations are observed: resetting and non-resetting deletions.
Kaiyu Deng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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