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CONCEPTUALIZAREA NOŢIUNII DE MIŞCARE ÎN LIMBILE ENGLEZĂ ŞI ROMÂNĂ
(Universitatea Liberă Internaţională din Moldova, 2013) Cincilei, Cornelia; Bodean-Vozian, Olesea
One of the basic peculiarities of languages is different means employed to conceptualize the reality, each representing so-called specific “picture of the world”. This fact could be noticed when comparing the manner of conceptualizing such a universal notion as motion. Therefore, the concept of motion could be represented in a scheme comprising the following elements: Source, Target, Path, Figure and Manner. The way these elements are encoded depends on the type of languages. Talmy’s typological approach, largely recognized by scientific community in recent times, makes difference between two types of motion encoding languages, having as basis linguistic form and semantic content. These two types of languages could be distinguished depending on which element of the scheme is encoded in the lexical meaning of the verb and which is left outside its root. Thus, some languages (including Romanian) encode the Path in the verb and leave the Manner of Motion to other elements, if necessary, while other languages focus on the Manner of Motion, lexicalizing it at the level of verb and leaving so-called satellite to point out the Path (English). Therefore, there are path-type and manner-type languages.