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Language and Time : a Cognitive Linguistics Approach /
Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the assumption that time is straightforwardly structured in terms of space, he shows that while space is important for temporal representation, time is nevertheless separate and distinguishable from it. Evans argues for three distinct temporal frames of reference in language and cognition and evaluates the nature of temporal reference from a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis is that the hallmark of temporal reference is transience, a property unique to the domain of time. This important study has implications not only for the relationship between space and time, but also for that between language and figurative thought, and the nature of linguistically-mediated meaning construction. |
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| Notas: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107340626 1107340624 9781107043800 1107043808 9781461953449 1461953448 1107693152 9781107693159 9781306212281 1306212286 9781107670600 1107670608 |