事象構造メタファーにおける「波」と「流れ」の移動 : 社会的活動の概念化をめぐって

Abstract

The study examines metaphoric expressions describing social activities in terms of the motion of water using the Event Structure Metaphor and Frame Semantics perspectives. First, we proposed two sub-types of manner of motion within the Motion Frame: animal-like motion and vehicle-like motion, and these characterize the semantics of nami (“wave”) and nagare (“flow”), respectively. Second, we demonstrated that this distinction in the manner of motion can be understood as exhibiting different readings of the two words, both literally and metaphorically in actual contexts, where they occur in relation with verbs of motion signifying a Force-Dynamic relationship between the moving object and the perceiver in a motion event.