Extending Spatial Frames of Reference to Temporal Concepts

Abstract

Tripartite systems are currently common to several theories concerned with distinguishing different spatial frames of reference (Levinson, 1996(Levinson, , 2003;;Levelt, 1996;Tversky, 1996).The notion that such a 3-part spatial model (e.g.intrinsic, deictic, extrinsic) can be extended to temporal models is at least theoretically plausible (Levinson, 2003).The current study reviews three basic spatial frame of reference types.Then, the results of recent empirical work investigating temporal metaphor is reviewed and applied to a theoretical temporal frame of reference model.Lastly, the concept of an extrinsic temporal frame of reference is introduced and supported by several experiments.