Leonard Talmy
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036979
- eISBN:
- 9780262343169
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036979.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
In the speech-external domain, a corporal cue is the location in space occupied by the speaker’s or hearer’s body. The space immediately around that location is the vicinal region, and the space ...
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In the speech-external domain, a corporal cue is the location in space occupied by the speaker’s or hearer’s body. The space immediately around that location is the vicinal region, and the space surrounding that in turn is the extravicinal region — the two main corporally based regions. The discourse generally also indicates the spatial relation of a Figure to one of these regions. A trigger that requires a corporal cue for the determination of its target is a corporal trigger. Corporal triggers can have speech-internal targets of two types. The target can be an element of the narrative world that the discourse leads the hearer to construct, or of the discourse itself when metaphorized as following a path through space. In the first case, the corporal cue is the location not of the speaker but of the base — an entity in the narrative world that a nontrigger constituent refers to. In the second case, the corporal cue is the discourse location — the point in the discourse at which the trigger appears.Less
In the speech-external domain, a corporal cue is the location in space occupied by the speaker’s or hearer’s body. The space immediately around that location is the vicinal region, and the space surrounding that in turn is the extravicinal region — the two main corporally based regions. The discourse generally also indicates the spatial relation of a Figure to one of these regions. A trigger that requires a corporal cue for the determination of its target is a corporal trigger. Corporal triggers can have speech-internal targets of two types. The target can be an element of the narrative world that the discourse leads the hearer to construct, or of the discourse itself when metaphorized as following a path through space. In the first case, the corporal cue is the location not of the speaker but of the base — an entity in the narrative world that a nontrigger constituent refers to. In the second case, the corporal cue is the discourse location — the point in the discourse at which the trigger appears.
