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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Vyvyan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.