“Front/back”orientation is a basic understanding of the spatial relationship between people and objects and represents a dimensional spatial relationship in the relative horizontal direction.The“front/back”orienta...“Front/back”orientation is a basic understanding of the spatial relationship between people and objects and represents a dimensional spatial relationship in the relative horizontal direction.The“front/back”orientation is judged based on human body experience both in Chinese“qian/hou”and English“front/back”.The spatial cognition of Chinese“qian/hou”and English“front/back”orientation can be analyzed from two aspects:topological space and reference space.展开更多
文章根据Lakoff and Johnson的时间理论分析了汉语时间中的空间隐喻,主要对汉语时间词中的"前"和"后"进行了比较深入的讨论。并指出:汉语中,未来的时间在人们的前面,过去的时间在人们的后面;"前途"不是时...文章根据Lakoff and Johnson的时间理论分析了汉语时间中的空间隐喻,主要对汉语时间词中的"前"和"后"进行了比较深入的讨论。并指出:汉语中,未来的时间在人们的前面,过去的时间在人们的后面;"前途"不是时间,只是在位置上处于未来。汉语时间词中的"前"、"后"按照时间流向和序列来确定。展开更多
文摘“Front/back”orientation is a basic understanding of the spatial relationship between people and objects and represents a dimensional spatial relationship in the relative horizontal direction.The“front/back”orientation is judged based on human body experience both in Chinese“qian/hou”and English“front/back”.The spatial cognition of Chinese“qian/hou”and English“front/back”orientation can be analyzed from two aspects:topological space and reference space.