UP à contre-sens
Résumé
Our aim in this article is to point out that mainstream spatial models (either world-based or
experience-based) prove largely inadequate for the analysis of verbal particles in English. In
particular the particle UP (vs DOWN) definitely cannot be confined to simply expressing “upward
movement” and non-spatial uses are very frequent. We propose here an alternative model for UP
in the general framework of the Theory of the Interlocutive Relation (Douay & Roulland 2014), based
on systemic operations of language which can account for spatial and non-spatial structural
patterns as well. The key-concept in this research is a systemic definition of language based on self-reference and self-organization rather than more or less “obvious” environment-induced
stimuli.
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