出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The article discusses a small number of Estonian similes connected with the concept kiiresti (’quickly’, ’fast’), used to describe physical bodily movement as well as mental movement associated with cognition. Most of the analysed similes characterise dynamic progressive or non-progressive situations; the relationship between the progress of a situation and viewpoint, expressed in these similes, may be defined or undefined. Most of these phrases are understood through metaphoric transfer: the source domain often being an animal or a characteristically fast moving natural phenomenon, while the target domain is mostly a human. The article describes systematic semantic projections that might be regarded as manifestations of naïve physics in language. The presented semantic variants clearly represent the characteristic tendencies of metaphoric transfer – for example, while speaking about mental processes through physical processes or conceptualising the abstract through the concrete
