Spatial construal of TIME in Indonesian language and co-speech gestures

Collaborators: Poppy Siahaan (University of Cologne, Germany) and Alice Gaby (Monash University, Australia)

Goal: To describe the representation of TIME in terms of SPACE in Indonesian, as evidenced by language, co-speech gestures, and psycholinguistic experiments [under development].

Brief description: << UPDATE: This research has been published open access in Linguistik Indonesia (Rajeg, Siahaan, and Gaby 2022) >> This initial phase of the project begins with (i) corpus-based data of linguistic metaphors in an Indonesian Leipzig Corpus (c15 mill. word-tokens) and (ii) a sample of co-speech gestures of talk show participants (four top Indonesian singers) when they talk about temporal reference (e.g., events progression, events ordering). Early results of this project have been accepted for presentation at the 15^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 15) in Nishinomiya, Japan (6-9 August 2019) (cf. here) (updated abstract). (list of my other research projects)

Citation: Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya, Poppy Siahaan & Alice Gaby. 2022. The Spatial Construal of TIME in Indonesian: Evidence from Language and Gesture. Linguistik Indonesia 40(1). 1–24. https://doi.org/10.26499/li.v40i1.297.

Updates:

• 2022 - Our paper is now out open access in Linguistik Indonesia (Rajeg, Siahaan, and Gaby 2022).
  
• 2021 - Our paper from this project titled "The spatial construal of TIME in Indonesian: Evidence from language and gesture" has been accepted for publication in Linguistik Indonesia. The supplementary materials (incl. the R codes for the statistical analyses) can be found at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FJE6K.
• 2021 - We are going to present this paper again for Indonesian audience at KIMLI 2021 (Online) in August 2021 (video recording).
• 2020 - We have finalised the first draft of a rather concise paper of the project. The paper, however, needs further fine-tuning before submitted for publication.