Back to the future? How Chinese-English bilinguals switch between front and back orientation for time
Abstract
The ability to conceive time is a corner stone of human cognition. It is unknown, however, whether time conceptualisation differs depending on language of operation in bilinguals. Whilst both Chinese and English cultures associate the future with the front space, some temporal expressions of Chinese involve a configuration reversal due to historic reasons. For instance, Chinese refers to the day after tomorrow using the spatiotemporal metaphor...
Paper Details
Title
Back to the future? How Chinese-English bilinguals switch between front and back orientation for time
Published Date
Dec 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
203
Pages
116180 - 116180
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