How Linguistic and Cultural Forces Shape Conceptions of Time: English and Mandarin Time in 3D

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1305-1328

  Fuhrman, Orly ^a   Mccormick, Kelly ^a   Chen, Eva ^b   Jiang, Heidi ^c   Shu, Dingfang ^d   Mao, Shuaimei ^d   Boroditsky, Lera ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culture; English; Implicit association; Language; Mandarin; Metaphor; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052418504     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01193.x     Document Type: Article

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