文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective

作者：Chen, Shujun[1];Wu, Lihuan[2]

机构：[1]Guangdong Univ Foreign Studies, Fac English Language & Culture, Ctr Linguist & Appl Linguist, Guangzhou, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Foreign Languages, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2023

卷号：15

期号：3

起止页码：480

外文期刊名：LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000985675400001)，A&HCI(收录号:WOS:000985675400001)】；

语种：英文

外文关键词：Actual motion; construction grammar; intra-linguistic variation; metaphorical motion; motion event typology

摘要：Languages differ considerably in the way they encode motion. Previous research on motion encoding has paid much attention to inter-typological variation (i.e., variation between language types) and intra-typological variation (i.e., variation within language types), but less focus on intra-linguistic variation (i.e., variation within particular languages). To fill this niche, the current study compares actual motion and metaphorical motion in Standard Mandarin Chinese with a corpus-based approach. We ask whether the typological properties in actual motion extend to metaphorical motion. The results indicate that the answer is negative. The typological properties including lexicalization patterns and the distribution of semantic components vary by both event type (actual motion vs. metaphorical motion) and genre (fiction vs. non-fiction) within Chinese. The intra-linguistic variation can be explained by additional factors - the pragmatic context and the structural property of Chinese. These findings support a constructional proposal of the motion event typology, which is a more nuanced typology that expands the binary distinction between V-languages and S-languages. In this proposal, the consideration of the scalar dimension enables more explicit descriptions of variation within languages (shift left- or rightward on the scale) and more accurate explanations for these phenomena.