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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- pt. 1: Orientation
- Introduction
- Access semantics
- pt. 2: Temporal frames of reference
- The nature of temporal reference
- Deictic temporal reference
- Sequential temporal reference
- Extrinsic temporal reference
- Time versus space
- pt. 3: Meaning construction and temporal reference
- Conceptual metaphors and lexical concepts
- Figurative meaning construction in LCCM Theory
- Semantic affordances and temporal reference
- Universals and diversity in the cross linguistic representation of time
- References
- Index.