Analysis of Orientation Paths in Persian Fictive Motion within the Framework of Cognitive Semantics
Fictive motion, a figurative motion of an entity conjured up as a continuous motion of a stationary abstract object, plays a key role in language and caption (Talmy, 2000a). Accordingly, fictive motion paths and orientation paths were subject to scrutiny in the present study. From cognitive semantics, Talmy's (2000a, p. 103) classifications of fictive motion events were broached through several examples. To this end, a preference task entailing 16 extracted sentences from Talmy's (2000a) classifications was developed to scrutinize Persian speakers' intuitions in evaluating fictive motion. The sentences were translated into Persian, while a similar sentence was also reproduced for every translated sentence, as well as 9 pairs of filler sentences, to analyze the cognitive qualities of fictive motion events perceived by the Persian speakers. Prior to conducting a full-scale research project and to control the reliability and validity of the preference task, a pilot study was conducted with 8 participants and 5 linguists. 105 Persian students participated in a two-stage task based on a convenience sampling procedure to single out the fictive motion sentences and terms. As reported by the results, 86.9% of the participants marked the motion sentences. Prepositional phrases were selected as the motion constituents by the average number of 56 participants. This led to the conclusion that the paths were the most frequent semantic elements in Persian.
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