Time and Space questionnaire (English, Chinese and Portuguese versions)
Author : Chris Sinha, Vera da Silva Sinha & Wany Sampaio (authors)
Publication date : 2015
Bibliographical references :
Sinha, Chris, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Zinken, Jörg and Sampaio, Wany (2011). When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition 3(1): 137-169 doi 10.1515/langcog.2011.006
Silva Sinha, Vera da, Sinha, Chris, Sampaio, Wany and Zinken, Jörg (2012). Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture. In Luna Filipović and Kasia Jaszczolt (Eds.) Space and Time in Languages and Cultures II: Language, Culture, and Cognition. Human Cognitive Processing Series 37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Silva Sinha, Vera da (2019) Event-Based Time in Three Indigenous Amazonian and Xinguan Cultures and Languages. Frontiers in Psychology (Section Cultural Psychology) 18 March doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00454
Goals
The Time and Space Questionnaire was designed by Wany Sampaio, Vera da Silva Sinha and Chris Sinha to elicit lexical and phrasal expressions for time interval concepts and for some spatial relational and directional concepts. The questionnaire currently exists in three versions using the respective languages of administration: Chinese, English, Portuguese. The first version to be used was the Portuguese. The current versions in all these languages are available here on TulQuest.
Protocol summary
The questionnaire is intended to be used as the basis for conversation between the administrator and the language consultant. The interaction should be audio recorded and preferably video-recorded for gestural analysis.
If you intend to use the questionnaire we would be grateful if you notify us of which languages you intend to investigate, and later to send copies of reports and publications to: christopher.sinha@gmail.com
Development context
The rationale for the design of the Time and Space Questionnaire is outlined in the following articles:
Sinha, Chris, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Zinken, Jörg and Sampaio, Wany (2011). When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition 3(1): 137-169 doi 10.1515/langcog.2011.006
Silva Sinha, Vera da, Sinha, Chris, Sampaio, Wany and Zinken, Jörg (2012). Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture. In Luna Filipović and Kasia Jaszczolt (Eds.) Space and Time in Languages and Cultures II: Language, Culture, and Cognition. Human Cognitive Processing Series 37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/hcp.37/main
Silva Sinha, Vera da (2019) Event-Based Time in Three Indigenous Amazonian and Xinguan Cultures and Languages. Frontiers in Psychology (Section Cultural Psychology) 18 March doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00454 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00454/full