Metaphorical Space Research Articles

Metaphorical space in academic talk

Space is one of the most basic semantic domains in language, and one which is routinely exploited in metaphor. This study explores how static space (place and position) is used in the academic talk of an EMI research seminar on theory building, investigating not only the metaphorical spaces evoked but also the ways in which participants in the seminar communicate their relationship with spatialized concepts. Three main configurations of space are used in this data, corresponding to the container, centre-periphery, and link image schemas. Each can be viewed objectively or subjectively; and it is in the subjective viewpoints that we discover how speakers position themselves with respect to their discipline, borrow ideas from others, seek to draw disparate concepts together, and discuss the difficulties they experience in their spatial relations with academic concepts and within academic groups.

Slaughterhouse (Macello)

<i>Slaughterhouse</i> (Macello)

Five Ways to Stretch Theatrical Space on Contemporary American Stages (US)

This article seeks to outline and define a number of arresting tendencies in contemporary playwriting in the United States, particularly when it comes to the poetics of space. Starting from an analysis of theater centered on spatial modalities (Chaudhuri, Foucault, Brook, Schechner), I delineate five innovative trends in 21st-century theater, with regards to their use of material and metaphorical space. I begin with an exploration of multilingual space, broadening the stage world to accommodate otherness in the plays of Quiara Alegría Hudes, Nilo Cruz, Virginia Grise or Jeff Augustin. A second highlighted tendency emphasizes the instability of space and its liminal, porous quality in the works of Sarah Ruhl, Lindsey Ferrentino, Annie Baker and Sarah DeLappe. A third trend reframes and disrupts theatrical space, in palimpsestic and explosive ways (Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, Aleshea Harris), and a fourth further overturns this space in politically-charged, shocking reversals which threaten the audience’s comfort (Jeremy O. Harris, Young Jean Lee, Jackie Sibblies Drury). Finally, collaborative performance projects by Erika Chong Shuch and Andrew Schneider provide an opportunity to delve into paradoxically private, almost invisible forms of theater.

Cognitive restructuring: Psychophysical measurement of time perception in bilinguals

AbstractThis paper explores the link between the metaphoric structure TIME IS SPACE and time perception in bilinguals. While there appear to be fundamental commonalities in the way humans perceive and experience time regardless of language background, language-specific spatiotemporal metaphors can give rise to differences between populations, under certain conditions. Little is known, however, about how bilinguals experience time, and the specific factors that may modulate bilingual temporal processing. Here, we address this gap by examining L1 Spanish – L2 Swedish bilinguals in a psychophysical task. Results show that duration estimation of dynamic spatial configurations analogous to L2-specific temporal metaphors is modulated by L2 proficiency. In contrast, duration estimation of spatial configurations analogous to the L1 metaphorical expressions appears to be modulated by the age of L2 acquisition. These findings are discussed in terms of associative learning and cognitive restructuring in the bilingual mind.

The Evil of Human Nature Under Class Division—Based on the Metaphorical Interpretations in the Film Parasite

As the winner of the 72nd Palme d’Or at Cannes as well as the Best Film of the 92nd Academy Awards, the Parasite is a critical realist film directed by Bong Joon-ho from South Korea. Through a variety of simple images, the director has formed a metaphor system of interrelation, mutual restriction and dramatic tension, which makes the film not only have multiple interpretations, but also rich in deep connotation. Based on the analysis of parasite metaphor, odor metaphor and space metaphor in the film, this paper interprets and analyzes Bong Joon-ho’s creative intention and shooting techniques.

Evolution is an arc along a timeline

AbstractGrowing evidence shows the role of teachers gestures not only in L2 learning (Stam &amp; Tellier, 2021) but also in supporting learning in the L1 classroom (Alibali et al., 2014;Crowder, 1996;Wilson et al., 2014). The current study aims at contributing to this last perspective. Based on data from a 3rd grade plurilingual classroom in an Italian school, it observes the ‘catchments’ (McNeill, 2000) in teacher’s gesticulation during a cycle of lessons on “The origin of life”. The analysis identifies conceptual components based on thetime is spacemetaphor associated with gestures, and observes their alignment with lexical items – either technical or common words (evolution, ages, ancestors, archaic;change, back, old) – in speech. The gesture-word association supports both the conceptualization of the notions and the acquisition of the related lexicon: gestures connect recurring concepts to their different verbalisations, ensuring a conceptually coherent representation over the lesson; they establish synonimic relations between technical and common words; and they can also work as memory triggers towards and between concepts and lexical units.

Semantic of Space In Acehnese : Conceptual Metaphor Semantic Cognitive

&lt;em&gt;The purpose of this research is to describe the spatial aspects of the spatial conceptualization generated by the dominant metaphors found in Acehnese society both related to Acehnese culture and nature. The author uses Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) cognitive semantic conceptual study which is clarified by Cruse &amp;amp; Croft (2004) and Saeed (2009) in describing and analyzing the data. The concept of space is generated which refers to the container (container) and place (space). Container space includes: (1) inside-out concept, (2) full-empty concept, and (3) content concept. Space includes: (1) up-down concept, (2) center-periphery concept, and left-right image concept. the spatial conceptualization generated by the dominant metaphor found in Acehnese society is divided into three main spaces; seuramoe keue (front porch), rumoh inoeng (tungai porch), and seuramoe likoet (back porch) space related to the container (container) is categorized as the concept of container space in Acehnese houses, while the conceptualization of space related to place is categorized as the concept of space in aceh nature. The metaphor of open space in this element includes the entire open space of open nature in all activities. while the conceptualization of space related to place is categorized as the concept of space in Aceh's realm. The metaphor of open space in this element includes the entire open space of open nature in all activities. while the conceptualization of space related to place is categorized as the concept of space in Aceh's realm. The metaphor of open space in this element includes the entire open space of open nature in all activities.&lt;/em&gt;

The Relation of Female Characters to Nature in the Turkish Series Wounded Love (2016–2018): Ecofeminist Approaches

This study analyzes the female characters and their relationship to nature in the Turkish series, entitled “You are my country” (“Vatanım Sensin” originally in Turkish) or “Wounded Love” (2016-2018) from an ecofeminist point of view. The Turkish and Greek mothers, daughters, and sisters try to unify their families after each attack in the series. Thus, their efforts will be analyzed within the framework of “Ecofeminism” as Turkey is a land linguistically feminized in Latin as “Turquia” with a female gender ending -a. The ecological metaphorical spaces associated with the images of Turkish and Greek women trying to preserve the family continuity during the liberation war of Turkey will be analyzed; such ecological spaces include the Aegean Sea, forests, and roads of Izmir, Ankara, and Salonica. Moreover, ecological metaphorical objects include flowers, trees, and animals. Illnesses, famines, plunders, and forced migrations are the main reasons for the losses of some family members; this study examines how these lost members get united through the metaphorical uses of the environmental spaces important for women, who try to keep the new Turkey free through their efforts in the 1920s within the framework of ecofeminism, a term coined by Françoise d’Eaubonne in 1974.

Negotiating a Jewish maritime approach in Tel Aviv’s urban laboratory

ABSTRACT This article seeks to examine different stages, symbolic and material, of using the sea in Zionist thought and practice of statehood. What happens after a metaphorical space – which was used to imagine ways of establishing statehood – turns into reality? During this process, the city of Tel Aviv becomes the center of discussing the connection to the sea, for the city itself and for the Yishuv as a whole. Different expressions of an extending Jewish maritime development are affected through the simultaneity of interacting with the sea while negotiating its role for the Yishuv’s society during the 1930s.

Studying Abroad Meets Marginalization: Roma of Greece, Autoethnography, and Academic Tourism

While Greece has historically hosted many minority groups in various relational statuses with the majority population, the Roma uniquely embody practical, psychological and metaphorical spaces that sets them apart from other excluded groups. This study explores the historico-social space that separates the Roma and contextualizes recent developments, including Covid-19, which further marginalizes the group. The transactional space that defines relations between Roma and non-Roma encompasses a ‘gaze’ that disenfranchises Gypsy cultural standing and reduces mutual understanding between mainstream and marginalized communities. This same transactional space is rife with misunderstanding that profits normative day-to-day relations between Roma and those in mainstream society. The paper explores perceptions of the Roma within the Greek social hierarchy, while suggesting study abroad programming, as part of academic tourism, can play a positive role in altering perceptions of minority groups.

A Report from LGBTI Philanthropy

A Report from LGBTI Philanthropy

Metaphorization of Space in Biblical Psalms

This work examines conceptual metaphors of space in biblical Psalms and in relation to the psalmist’s personal emotive and theological message which the psalmodic text intends to convey. Language of space and motion is in so many ways crucial for human existential as well as a religious experience. The psalmist reveals and presents his complex existential as well as his theological challenges through a set of conceptual metaphors of space. Orientational metaphors form a specific mental space where the antipodes of up/down and left/right enable the psalmist to express himself in spiritual terms as well. For the biblical psalmist situations of his disorientation are fairly frequent, whether caused by feelings of his sins or social injustices. After all, he yearns for a moral and spiritual re-orientation. While the Euclidean space is homogeneous, in that space biblical psalmist experiences discontinuity for certain parts of this imaginary space is qualitatively different. Namely, the divisions of such non-Euclidean space rest qualitatively on the division between the sacred and the profane. For the psalmist, such division of space rests on some key terms, such as Temple, Heaven, and Underworld. This is followed by the orientational metaphors as up/down. God is up (heavens), man is down below (earth). In eschatological terms, it is the sovereign heavenly judge who will act upon the dividing between the good and the evil ones, between the left and the right, on the horizontal plane. Since that which is above is better than that which is below and underneath, so is the right side better than that which is on the left.

Metaforizacija prostora u biblijskim Psalmima

This work examines conceptual metaphors of space in biblical Psalms and in relation to the psalmist’s personal emotive and theological message which the psalmodic text intends to convey. Language of space and motion is in so many ways crucial for human existential as well as a religious experience. The psalmist reveals and presents his complex existential as well as his theological challenges through a set of conceptual metaphors of space. Orientational metaphors form a specific mental space where the antipodes of up/down and left/right enable the psalmist to express himself in spiritual terms as well. For the biblical psalmist situations of his disorientation are fairly frequent, whether caused by feelings of his sins or social injustices. After all, he yearns for a moral and spiritual re-orientation. While the Euclidean space is homogeneous, in that space biblical psalmist experiences discontinuity for certain parts of this imaginary space is qualitatively different. Namely, the divisions of such non-Euclidean space rest qualitatively on the division between the sacred and the profane. For the psalmist, such division of space rests on some key terms, such as Temple, Heaven, and Underworld. This is followed by the orientational metaphors as up/down. God is up (heavens), man is down below (earth). In eschatological terms, it is the sovereign heavenly judge who will act upon the dividing between the good and the evil ones, between the left and the right, on the horizontal plane. Since that which is above is better than that which is below and underneath, so is the right side better than that which is on the left.

Do gestures really facilitate speech production?

Why do people gesture when they speak? According to one influential proposal, the Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis (LRH), gestures serve a cognitive function in speakers' minds by helping them find the right spatial words. Do gestures also help speakers find the right words when they talk about abstract concepts that are spatialized metaphorically? If so, then preventing people from gesturing should increase the rate of disfluencies during speech about both literal and metaphorical space. Here, we sought to conceptually replicate the finding that preventing speakers from gesturing increases disfluencies in speech with literal spatial content (e.g., the rocket went up), which has been interpreted as evidence for the LRH, and to extend this pattern to speech with metaphorical spatial content (e.g., my grades went up). Across three measures of speech disfluency (disfluency rate, speech rate, and rate of nonjuncture filled pauses), we found no difference in disfluency between speakers who were allowed to gesture freely and speakers who were not allowed to gesture, for any category of speech (literal spatial content, metaphorical spatial content, and no spatial content). This large dataset (7,969 phrases containing 2,075 disfluencies) provided no support for the idea that gestures help speakers find the right words, even for speech with literal spatial content. Upon reexamining studies cited as evidence for the LRH and related proposals over the past 5 decades, we conclude that there is, in fact, no reliable evidence that preventing gestures impairs speaking. Together, these findings challenge long-held beliefs about why people gesture when they speak. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Peculiarities of Chronotopic Structure in V. Woolf’s Novel “Towards the Lighthouse”

Time and space – textual elements which were regarded as the secondary elements in the interpretation of the text, play a key role in shaping the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s novels. In her fictional prose the nature of characters and relationships are weaving in the complex chronotopic constructions and configurations. To understand the complex chronotopic configurations of the novel To the Lighthouse, it is essential to study conceptual and contextual metaphors of time and space. In the novel Woolf creates many conceptual metaphors which employ the functions to evoke a reader to realize the abstract notions as life and death, happiness and sadness, time and space. The central concern of the novel deals with complex interrelation between time and space. The modernist concept of time expands conceptual metaphors and causes its recurring formulation.

With Care to Ms. Maudelle Bass Weston, and: No Longer Peter Cohen's Property #16, and: Cradling My Ancestral Mother #2

With Care to Ms. Maudelle Bass Weston, and: No Longer Peter Cohen's Property #16, and: Cradling My Ancestral Mother #2 Alayna N. Pernell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 89] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 90] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 91] Alayna N. Pernell Alayna N. Pernell (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Alabama. Pernell's practice considers the gravity of the mental wellbeing of Black people concerning the physical and metaphorical spaces they inhabit. She is currently the Associate Lecturer of Photography and Imaging at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Copyright © 2022 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

In the Ethics of Strangers: Saul Bellow Drawing Boundaries of No ‘M’an’s Land

This paper seeks to demonstrate how space in Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein (2000) and Humboldt’s Gift (1975) is acquainted with the metaphors memory, spiritual journeys and philosophical meditations. Space, in the Bellovian sense, is not local nor is it historical (real); rather, it is fictional, utopian and philosophical. By the “the Boundaries of no ‘M’an’s Land,” the researcher underpins the sublime ideals of Bellow’s mental space. By the term “strangers,” the researcher refers to Bellow’s intellectual heroes who are identified with the metaphors of space. In this concern, two fundamental questions are investigated: a) how should one argue for the idea that metaphors of space are related to memory, spiritual journeys and philosophical meditations? b) what sense can be given to the relationship between the metaphors of space and the ethics of strangers? To unmask these blind spots, the aspects of metaphors are firstly investigated. Second, the relationship between these metaphors and the ethics of strangers are examined. In the light of these primary findings, the conclusion which can be drawn is that the metaphors of space do not only epitomize the quality of American, cultural, aesthetic and philosophical discourse, but also draw imaginary homelands of “strange” intellectuals. Special focus will be given to Ravelstein and Humboldt’s Gift. Bellow’s other novels and short stories are deployed to support the thesis. The Kantian notions of human welfare and moral worth and the Hegelian assumptions of the phenomenology of spirit are key concepts to illustrate the analysis.

The road to the symbolic and metaphorical space of the works of Y. Kolas: comparative point of view

The symbolic and metaphorical fullness of the image of the road in the poem of Y. Kolas “New Land” in comparison with the works of N. Gogol and T. Shevchenko is revealed in the article. It is emphasized that in the artistic and philosophical understanding of the authors, the road is presented as a way of heroes’ existence, overcoming life obstacles, as well as a universal symbol of the endless movement of spirit, thought, comprehension of existential values. Comparative analysis made it possible to expand the range of semantic meanings of the image as an embodiment of the search for spiritual, national and historical self-identification of a person, people, country.

Tra gioco e utopia: in cerca di ludotopie nella scrittura di autrici italoamericane

This article explores play as a potential site of articulation of utopia for third-generation Italian American women writers: I define such metaphorical space as a “ludotopia”, and I seek to establish whether it can be conceived as a pathway towards self-assertion.

Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Ethnic Identity

Based on the analysis of contemporary theoretical and practical research in the fields of social philosophy, sociology and social psychology, the author considers trends related to the interpretation of the phenomenon of ethnic identity. A multiple interpretation of this phenomenon is described, which allows us to study its different forms and degrees of manifestation. Network social media, multi-ethnic urban environment and processes in non-systemic politics are considered as socio-cultural factors that influence the transformation of the phenomenon under consideration. It is concluded that the process of ethnic identification cannot be further unambiguously identified with a scale directed from the zero state (identity is not formed) to the positive pole (identity is formed and expressed). Instead of this onedimensional interpretation, a metaphor of space, which includes different forms and degrees of expression of ethnic identity, is proposed.