Space and Time in Language

Mario Brdar, Marija Omazić, Višnja Pavičić Takač, Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić and Gabrijela Buljan teach various courses in English linguistics, translation studies and English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology in the Department of English at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.

• Contents: Mario Brdar/Marija Omazić/Višnja Pavičić Takač/Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić/Gabrijela Buljan: Introduction – Günter Radden: Spatial time in the West and the East – Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić: Spatial and temporal relations in the conceptual metaphor Events are Things – Anuška Štambuk: A corpus-based analysis of metaphors motivated by the spatial meaning of the Croatian lexeme daleko (‘far(away)’) – Jodi L. Sandford: The spatial relations of color: Linguistic categorization of Light-Dark and Near-Far – Daniela Katunar/Krešimir Šojat: Morphosemantic fields in the building of the Croatian WordNet: The Verbs of Movement – Marija Brala-Vukanović: Where is o: Croatian prepositions as vectors – Vesna Deželjin: Spatial deictic elements in Italian and Croatian – Barbara Kerovec: Successive prepositions in Croatian as translational equivalents of Turkish semi-postpositions: ungrammaticality or necessity? – Renata Geld/Stela Letica Krevelj: Centrality of space in the strategic construal of up in English particle verbs – Marica Čilaš Mikulić/Sanda Lucija Udier: Space, spatiality and spatial relations in Croatian as a second and foreign language – Bogdanka Pavelin Lešić: The metaphorization of space in speech and gesture – Gabrijela Buljan/Alma Vančura: Waltzing and snaking through physical space: English denominal verb conversions on the lexical-constructional interface – Goran Schmidt/Marija Omazić: Time metaphors in English and Croatian: A corpus-based study – Jadranka Zlomislić/Vlatka Ivić/Blaženka Šoštarić: Non-native speakers lost in space but found in time – Anita Pavić Pintarić: Time in fictive orality (Based on Croatian and German novels) – Aleksandar Kavgić: Time and tense in United States presidents’ inaugural speeches from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics – Mirjana Mandić: The extension of meaning of temporal adverbs in Serbian-speaking children aged 1;6 to 4;0 – Šarolta Godnič Vičič: Native and foreign places in travel writing: The Guardian travel section – Višnja Pavičić Takač/Vesna Bagarić: Foreign language acquisition in space and time: A comparative analysis of the Croatian foreign language acquisition context – Renata Fox: Language and ideology in time and space.