How We Think about Temporal Words: A Gestural Priming Study in English and Chinese

Spatial metaphors are used to represent and reason about time. Such metaphors are typically arranged along the sagittal axis in most languages. For example, in English, “The future lies ahead of us” and “We look back on our past.” This is less straightforward for Chinese. Specifically, both the past...

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Main Authors: Melvin M. R. Ng, Winston D. Goh, Melvin J. Yap, Chi-Shing Tse, Wing-Chee So
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00974/full