A course in Cognitive Linguistics: More about metaphor 

Oops, my answer was: "Satudray". Hashtag Russians 👀😺

Dear Prof. Hilpert. I almost watch all of you videos. I find them very good. I study on Kurdish language and I am native at both Kurdish and Turkish. Moreover. I am not bad at English. About todays sentence, if I give the answer in Tukish and English languages "the meeting day" is Friday. But if i translate it in Kurdish the answer will be "Monday.

On the slide titled as "contradiction of the strong view", you said that the graph showed that "you don't need spatial thinking to reason successfully about time" and that it spelled trouble for the strong view of the metaphoric structuring hypothesis. The reason behind that was that in the experiment number 2, temporal prime influenced on temporal target question more than spatial prime did. However, I think that temporal primes "e.g., Thursday comes before Saturday" themselves are based on spatial primes, otherwise what does it really mean that Thursday comes before Saturday?! In addition, as you may know, in Persian calendar the week starts with Saturday and ends with Friday which puts Thursday after Saturday. Therefore, even when we think we are talking about being temporally primed, we are actually spatially primed at a deeper level.

Haha, that is really fun. I did choose Friday. I was wondering about Monday but it didn't seem quite right in counting two days forward. Isn't this amazing

I didn't get the experiement of Monday !! can u clarity it please .

I went with Friday, too... and now I can't get that stupid Rebecca Black song out of my head.

maybe in the task of comparing faces when the pictures are located close requires less attention resources which allows you to find more differences than to switch attention between two long-range pictures

I chose friday, but if I think in spanish (my native lang) I choose monday, wth?

This is an amazing series! I've always had an interest in linguistics, but it's so cool how much language and cognition go hand-in-hand. And especially as a student-teacher, it's really nice to think about how metaphors and analogies I use in class are processed by students.

Team Friday....✌

TEAM FRIDAY!

I think that the negative result in relation to perceiving may be accounted for with an "horizon of expectation". Since the percepts are supposed to be independent from each other, when the "intensity of contact" between them (spatial proximity) is stressed, the dissimilarity is stressed. On the contrary, concepts are supposed to be part of a whole (called Logos) so that when the intensity of contact is stressed, the similarity is stressed. Bottom line : the intensity of contact reinforces the basic assumption we have about the relation of the elements.

Wow! This is amazing! As well as studying Lang/Lit, I study Psychology and Graphic Design, and I've been trying to find research on design psychology/perception, and this is the closest thing I've come across so far! In design, I use juxtaposed elements to place emphasis on each individual element separately, but that's as far as my explanation goes. I wonder, too, what are the practical applications of this research, perhaps in advertising, or persuasion? Like, say I want more people to buy a long term/future plan, would placing images of long extending roads (or a plane landing) in the advertising have a significant increase in number of long term plans bought. *Seeing a plane land makes you choose future option* - essentially. This is fascinating. Next near (A2), I'm doing an EPQ, and I think your videos will inform what I study greatly. Thank you for taking the time to create these videos!

19:40 I always imagine a time period of one year as a circular shape with time moving clockwise through the months, which themselves take up equal portions of the circle. I have no idea where this image came from, but that has long been my preferred mental model of the passing of a year. So I'm quite confident we all use plenty of such metaphor-based conceptual tools in our thinking without even recognizing that they, really, are metaphors.

Team Monday :P (but only after thinking about it for a second)

Very interesting. I got Monday, and my reasoning was that the meeting was moving forward, towards me.

Team Monday here! Really interesting subject matter and presented very well!

good

I intuitively thought about Friday when I had been primed with no space effect in the beginning of the video. Why?

We were the group of 25 people in the metaphor class and as far as I remember only 2 or 3 answered Monday (to that question about meeting). I also answered Friday, like the most. I did not understand the experiment with the growing lines.

Friday

I disagree that space is used as a metaphor for time. They simply belong in the same category - that's a huge difference linguistically. In fact, both are dimensions - they have direction, units, length etc. What the research proves is that our brains are capable of understanding that. When we talk about the hooves of a moose, is it because we're using a metaphor of a cow, or because they belong in the same category? Now, since time is a dimension, we can talk about various points of reference - the participants who decided that Friday was the answer assumed the present moment to be their point of reference, whereas the second group chose the time of the meeting as their point of reference. Dimensions don't pertain only to time and space. Anything that can take on values can be plotted on an axis and it's not a matter of metaphor but simply of how important dimensions are to the way we perceive the world. One is not a metaphor of the other but both simply belong in the same category. As far as warmth and sympathy go, the average temperature of the air is 14 degrees Celcius, whereas the temperature of the skin is about 35 degrees Celcius. So the physical closeness between, say, the mother and her child is associated with warm temperature - but that actually is a metaphor.

with the experiment at 27:33 i think the results are the way they are with the pictures is because i noticed my mind had to juggle both one at a time and that reduced the accuracy of comparison as comapred with the 1st two girls who were close to each other my brain could sort of merge them together to notice the subtle differences becaus ei could see both of them at once without the need to juggle i think it can be indicated in your eye movements as well :P , also there was no juggling with the words edit alright i guess juggling was my metaphor for the conception perception distinction :P hahah this lecture is so meta i love it