The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference /

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The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Kevin Ezra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 42.
Temas:
Space and time in language.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions.
Metaphor.
Metonyms.
Espace et temps dans le langage.
Temporalité (Linguistique)
Métaphore.
Métonymie.
metaphor.
metonymy.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions
Metaphor
Metonyms
Space and time in language
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Talking about time as if it were space
  • The deictic nature of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time expressions
  • The experiential bases (grounding, motivation) of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time
  • From earlier to later
  • Frame of reference and alternate construals of ego-centered time
  • A field-based frame of reference
  • The psychological reality of sequence is relative position on a path
  • Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast : the case of sequence is relative position in a stack
  • Space-to-time metonymy
  • The contrasting front/behind schemas of sequence is relative position on a path and Moving Ego
  • The crosslinguistic pairing of in-front and behind with 'earlier' and 'later'
  • When back is not the opposite of front : a temporal relative frame of reference in Wolof
  • The Ego-opposed temporal metaphor and contexts of shared perspective
  • Modes of construal of front and behind
  • In search of primary metaphors of time
  • Expressions of static temporal "location"
  • Beyond metaphor and metonymy : mental spaces and conceptual integration
  • Other-centered Moving Time and Wolof fekk 'become co-located with'
  • Times as bounded regions
  • Having and wasting Wolof counterparts of time
  • Conclusions.

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