With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time

By Rafael E. Núñez, Eve Sweetser. Cognitive Sciences, 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Individual differences in the interpretation of ambiguous statements about time (2014, background): “…and Moving Time, Clark 1973; Lakoff and Johnson 1999), those structured around the conceptualization of events as elements in a sequence (Moore 2006; Núñez et al. 2006), and those structured around the conceptualization of events placed in relation to the forward-moving flow of time, without…”
Embodiment in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Evidence From Learners' and Teachers' Gestures (2012, methodology): “However, it is worth noting that they are not cross-culturally universal (eg, Nunez & Sweetser, 2006 ), suggesting that although there are ties to bodily experiences, their realization is also influenced by social and cultural factors.”
No Innate Number Line in the Human Brain (2011, background): “…spatial notions like “ahead of us” and “behind us” get mapped onto “future” and “past,” respectively, providing an entire network of systematic inferences where the relatively abstract domain of “time” is conceived in terms of front-back spatial experience (Núñez & Sweetser, 2006) (Figure 4).”
Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review (2009, background): “Nunes and Sweetser ( 2006 ) found that Aymara speakers, especially older individuals with limited Spanish, gesturally represented past as a direction towards the front and future as a direction towards the back.”
Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond (2011, background): “An interesting line of evidence comes from studies that show image schemas in people’s spontaneous gestures as they talk about abstract concepts (Cienki & Müller, 2008; Núñez & Sweetser, 2006).”
Time After Time: The Psychological Reality of the Ego- and Time-Reference-Point Distinction in Metaphorical Construals of Time (2006, background): “But Núñez and Sweetser (2006) have argued that linguistic data show much more complex patterns.”
Learning by Mapping Across Situations (2012, methodology): “I use context in the sociocultural sense to refer to the social dynamics of classrooms (Engle, 2006) and cultures (Legare & Gelman, 2008; Nunez & Sweetser, 2006).”
Enaction, imagination, and insight (2007, background): “Ethnographic and experimental studies (Núñez and Sweetser, 2006; Goldin-Meadow, 2006) of gesture are converging on a view of gesture as the enactment of concepts.”
Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers (2024, background): “…could bias LLMs toward Anglocentric patterns that could predispose the model to certain linguistic elements (lexicon, grammar, metaphors, etc.), while also shaping more profound behaviors related to, e.g., emotional stance (Boroditsky et al., 2003) or temporal reasoning (Núñez and Sweetser, 2006).”
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought (2008, background): “…of space (Boroditsky, 2000, 2001; Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002; Casasanto, 2005b, in press; Casasanto & Boroditsky, 2003, 2008; Casasanto et al., 2004; Cohen, 1967; Gentner, 2001; Núñez & Sweetser, 2006; Piaget, 1927/1969; Torralbo, Santiago, & Lupiáñez, 2006; Tversky, Kugelmass, & Winter, 1991).”