The Cognitive Motivations of Fictive Motion from the Perspective of Phenomenology

摘要

This paper tries to approach the cognitive motivations from a new perspective: phenomenology. It first reviews the cognitive motivations of fictive motion proposed by Talmy, Langacker, Lakoff and Turner, Fauconnier, and Matlock, whose explanations are widely accepted in this field. Then, it expounds the phenomenology and proposes three cognitive motivations of fictive motion expressions from the perspective of phenomenology: interaction between experience and language, intersubjectivity and imagination.