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The Thaayorre think of time like they talk of space
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Around the world, it is common to both talk and think about time in terms of space. But does our conceptualization of time simply reflect the space/time metaphors of the language we speak? Evidence from the Australian language Kuuk Thaayorre suggests not.
Alice eGaby
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The Metaphor TIME AS SPACE across Languages [PDF]
Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2015 The impact of spatial orientation on human thought and, in particular, our understanding of time has often been noted.1 Lakoff (1993: 218) assumes that our metaphorical understanding of time in terms of space is biologically determined: “In our visual systems, we have detectors for motion and detectors for objects/locations.
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Fictional metaphysics of fiction: Metaphysics and imagination in the humanities
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 A very simplified description of physics could be, according to Wikipedia, natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behaviour through space and time.
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Space, time, and language [PDF]
Physics of Life Reviews, 2018 Cognition is heavily grounded in space. As animals that move in space, we travel both physically and mentally in space and time, reliving past events, imagining future ones, and even constructing imaginary scenarios that play out in stories. Mental exploration of space is extraordinarily flexible, allowing us to zoom, adopt different vantage points ...
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IEEE Access, 2021 The wide application of Cyber Physical System (CPS) makes the security of CPS more and more concerned. As the key factors affecting the safety of CPS, space and time have also become the current research hotspot. The space and time safety of CPS requires
Xiaoying Chen +4 more
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Marking Identity through Language in Social Media Discourse by Chuka University Students
International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 2019 As people interact with one another, they mark their identity through language. Identity is typically who an individual is, or the qualities of an individual or group which make them different from others.
Mary Karuri
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Discursive Features of Russian as a Foreign Language Textbooks: Respond to Negative Russia Image Stereotypes [PDF]
ARPHA Proceedings, 2021 The article analyses the didactic space of the Russian as a foreign language textbooks and manuals within the pedagogical discourse in terms of intercultural communication theory.
Svetlana Gerasimova, Natalia Kasyanova
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Time and Space in Between: Time Zones, Languages, and Cultures in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 2019 Abstract In this paper, based on the data of a sociological research and the analysis of the linguistic landscapes of six Transcarpathian cities, we have illustrated that in Transcarpathia a significant part of the population – regardless of ethnicity – live their lives not according to the official “Kyiv time” (EET; UTC+2) but according
Csernicskó, István, Fedinec, Csilla
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“Nobody Asked You to Nicker” – Monstration Slogans as a Speech Genre
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022 The paper analyses the slogans of “Monstration”, a manifestation that was held for the first time in Novosibirsk in 2004 and has become an important social and cultural event in many other Russian cities as well as in some other countries.
Anna S. Krasnikova
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Multilingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages using Anchors and a Chain of Related Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Very low-resource languages, having only a few million tokens worth of data, are not well-supported by multilingual NLP approaches due to poor quality cross-lingual word representations. Recent work showed that good cross-lingual performance can be achieved if a source language is related to the low-resource target language.
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