The Embodied Priming Effects of Motion Events in Translation Process
Guo Yaling (Octavia)
Contents
introduction
Research design
Results
Discussion
Procedures
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Introduction
1. Different motion events trigger different time biases (Moving-time or Moving-ego)（Boroditsky and Ramscar 2002；Matlock et al. 2005； Matlock et al. 2011）.
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Moving-time
The deadline passed two days ago.
Moving-ego
We passed the deadline two days ago.
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2. A motion event refers to a situation that implies movement in space and during a time interval (Frawley 1992).
3. A motion event incorporates: 4 internal components of
Figure: the object that is in movement
Ground: a reference-point for the displacement of
the moving object.
Path: the trajectory followed by the Figure in relation to
the Ground object.
Motion: the existence of motion or location in the event.
2 properties: manner and cause
manner: a specific movement may be the outcome of
features such as speed or intensity.
cause : the application of a force induces the motion.
( Talmy 1985,2000）
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4. The cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of Moving-Time and Moving-Ego metaphors are related to restrictions on the choice of verbs and the default value of figure and ground.（Brdar and Brdar-Szabó 2017）.
Research question:
2. How do they cope with the cross-linguistic asymmetries?
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Research design
2 (motion directions : away vs. towards) × 2（guiding directions：away vs. towards) mixed design
Materials
stimuli
[1] a The dog was running towards me.
b The squirrel ran away from me.
[2] a The car approached me.
b The car left me in the dust.
[3] a The storm clouds rolled in.
b The train pulled away from me.
adapted from Kaschak et al.(2005)
Target The party originally scheduled on Next Wednesday has been moved forward two days.
adapted from Boroditsky (2000)
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Participants
84 MTI students (41 male, 43 female；Mean age=21，SD=1.5 )
self-rated English level 5.9 on a 7 point scale
Unbalanced bilinguals use of English 3.1,use of Chinese 6.7
40 congruent task 44 incongruent task
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Procedures
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Results
The data was filtered with E-Prime and outliers (8.2 % of the prime and 9.4of the target).were deleted with R.
1. There was a main effect of motion in primes, F（1，289）= 33.4 , p<0.001. Towards primes were responded significantly faster than away primes.
来=towards 去=away
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2. There was no significant main effect of guiding in primes, F（1，289）= 1.91, p= 0.169; there was an interaction effect of guiding and motion, F（3，287）= 14.09, p<0.001, η²=0.002.
来=towards 去=away
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3. There was no significant main effect of motion in target F（1，69）= 0.028, p= 0.87 or main effect of guiding F（1，69）= 0.5973 , p= 0.44. No significant interaction effect was found between motion and guide, F（3，67）= 1.332 , p= 0.27.
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4. Primed by guiding, more translations of “postpone” were found in congruent task, which was consistent with ego-moving schema.
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In incongruent task, time biases are consistent with movements of fixation points.
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Discussion
According to Perceptual-Simulation Hypothesis, motion events leave trajectory in space and time，path is a part of mental animation (Coventry et al. 2013).
“Towards” events have a path since the destination is participants themselves, and it is quicker to predict the time of them. On the contrary, “Away” events do not have a destination and hence path, therefore, it is slower to respond to them.
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Towards event
Away event
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2. Participants were more sensitive to visual input than to linguistic input, which has implications for interpreting. Sight translation is influenced by visual clues (Shreve et al. 2010) and its mechanism may be different from that of written translation.
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3. Participants were primed by visual movements and construed time in a consistent manner. They projected motion onto time while translating. Interpreters deal with the asymmetries of the two temporal schemas in accordance with their embodied experience and the real cognitive environment.
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motion
space
time
Projection & blending
Linguistic cues
Visual cues
Behavioral cues
The mechanism of translating motion and time
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