Time Is on Our Side
Temporal Agency in Courtship Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Kurlak (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Rebecca M Kurlak (The University of Texas at Austin), Matthew S Mcglone (0000-0002-8130-5724, The University of Texas at Austin), Anita L Vangelisti (0000-0002-8461-5859, The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 593-606 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0163853x.2017.1306675 |
| OpenAlex | W2605608454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 48 |
The reported study investigated how newlyweds linguistically encode changes in relationship commitment in retrospective courtship narratives. In particular, we explored their use of emotion words and its correspondence with “temporal agency,” that is, the attribution of temporal change to human actors or to abstract events and processes. A corpus of courtship narratives composed by recently married participants was analyzed. Narrators used a higher frequency of positive emotion terms (e.g., wonderful) and human temporal agency assignments (e.g., We spent Thanksgiving together) to describe episodes they associated with an increase in relationship commitment from others they associated with a decrease. When describing increases in commitment, their expression of positive emotion partially mediated human temporal agency assignments. However, they did not use significantly more negative emotion words (e.g., sad) or abstract temporal agency assignments (e.g., Our relationship went through a tough period) to describe decreases in commitment than increases. The implications of these findings for relational discourse analysis and embodiment theory are considered
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Attribution · Biology · Cognitive psychology · Courtship · Dynamics (music · Linguistics · Narrative · Period (music · Social science · Sociology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Space, Time, Semantics, and the Child11the Preparation of This Paper Was Supported in Part by Public Health Service Grant Mh-20021 From the National Institute of Mental Health. I Wish to Thank Eve v. Clark for Her Suggestions and Comments in the Writing of This Paper.
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |