Is the future always ahead ? Evidence for system - mappings in understanding space - time metaphors
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Languages often use spatial terms to talk about time. FRONT-BACK spatial terms are the terms most often imported from SPACE to TIME cross-linguistically . However, in English there are two different metaphorical mapping systems assigning FRONT BACK to events in time. This research examines the psychological reality of the two mapping systems: specifically, we ask whether subjects construct global domain-mappings between SPACE and TIME when comprehending sentences such as "Graduation lies before her" and "His birthday comes before Christmas ." Two experiments were conducted to test the above question . In both experiments, subjects' comprehension time was slowed down when temporal relations were presented across the two different metaphorical systems inconsistently. This suggests that people had to pay a substantial remapping cost when the mapping system was switched from one to the other. The existence of domain mappings in on-line processing further suggests that the two SPACE/TIME metaphorical mapping systems are psychologically real.
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