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Linguistic expression and conceptual representation of motion events in Arabic and English ... : Evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals ...
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This thesis reports the results of a multi-disciplinary experimental study which combines typological, psycholinguistic and cognitive methodologies in order to achieve two broad objectives. The first objective was to provide a comparative psycholinguistic analysis of the expression of motion events in two languages, namely Arabic and English, using Talmy’s typology of verb-framed languages (i.e., languages that conflate path in the main verb) vs. satellite-framed languages (i.e., languages that conflate path in a satellite) (Talmy, 1985) as the framework. The second objective was to investigate the relationship between linguistic representation and conceptual representation by taking motion events as the testing ground. The overall goal of the study was to find answers to three broad and interrelated research questions (RQs). RQ 1 asked whether native speakers of Arabic as a verb-framed language produce and comprehend motion events according to the typology of motion as in Talmy (1985). This was answered by ...
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motion events, verb-framed languages, satellite-framed languages, conceptual representation, conceptual transfer, language and cognition, linguistic relativity, linguistic typology, thinking-for-speaking
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URL: http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/linguistic-expression-and-conceptual-representation-of-motion-events-in-arabic-and-english(e40d9133-f9ff-4cca-9200-47af08796658).html
https://dx.doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1308
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