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Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

Sep 30, 2014
47:03

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Quick takeaways

  • Languages use different spatial axes to represent time, such as front-to-back or vertical axes.
  • The way duration is expressed and conceptualized in language varies, with different languages using different markers and dimensions.

Deep dives

Different spatial axes for temporal metaphors

Different languages use different spatial axes to represent time. Some languages, like English, use the front-to-back axis, with the past positioned in front and the future positioned behind. Others, like Chinese, use the vertical axis, with up representing the past and down representing the future.

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