TY - JOUR

T1 - Fictive Motion in the Context of Mountaineering

AU - Egorova, Ekaterina

AU - Tenbrink, Thora

AU - Purves, Ross S

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Fictive motion in language (as in “the ridge went north”) is claimed to reflect the attention focus of the observer on the extension and spatial layout of an entity. This paper investigates fictive motion in alpine narratives, which describe the experience of moving in a very specifically structured space. We examine space properties that are highlighted through fictive motion in this specific context and describe how they go beyond spatial extension. We further report the communicative motivation behind the use of fictive motion, ranging from conveying the sense of place to encoding the full spatial footprint of a motion event.

AB - Fictive motion in language (as in “the ridge went north”) is claimed to reflect the attention focus of the observer on the extension and spatial layout of an entity. This paper investigates fictive motion in alpine narratives, which describe the experience of moving in a very specifically structured space. We examine space properties that are highlighted through fictive motion in this specific context and describe how they go beyond spatial extension. We further report the communicative motivation behind the use of fictive motion, ranging from conveying the sense of place to encoding the full spatial footprint of a motion event.

KW - Fictive motion

KW - natural space

KW - mountaineering

KW - corpus-driven analysis

U2 - 10.1080/13875868.2018.1431646

DO - 10.1080/13875868.2018.1431646

M3 - Article

VL - 18

SP - 259

EP - 284

JO - Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal

JF - Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal

SN - 1387-5868

IS - 4

ER -