The Representation of Motion Events in English and German
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The Representation of Motion Events in English and German

An Empirical Investigation of Motion Event Encoding of Native Speakers and Learners

  1. 169 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Representation of Motion Events in English and German

An Empirical Investigation of Motion Event Encoding of Native Speakers and Learners

About this book

The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying motion event construal. This work approaches the verbalization and conceptualization of motion events in German and English from a theoretical point of view and on the basis of a corpus study, an online survey, and an in-person experiment. The research focuses on the investigation of different factors determining motion event construal of native speakers and learners by examining cognitive variables – i.e., visual endpoint salience and cognitive cost caused by non-habitual aspect use – and grammatical factors – i.e., grammatical viewpoint aspect.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Interface between grammar and conceptualization
  7. 2 Grammatical factors in motion event encoding
  8. 3 Empirical evidence: Corpus data
  9. 4 Experimental design: Salience
  10. 5 Experimental design: Capacity load
  11. 6 Relevance for foreign language learning
  12. 7 Conclusion
  13. Index