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Conceptualizations of time /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 52. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Conceptualizations of Time
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introducing conceptualizations of time
- 1. Structure of the volume
- 2. Survey of the chapters
- References
- Part I. Timeless concept of temporality
- Chapter 1. Temporal reference without the concept of time?
- 1. The thesis
- 2. Modal supervenience
- 3. Indispensability of temporal reference?
- 4. Banishing A-theory from metaphysics and from semantics?
- 5. Direct-Quantitative semantics?
- 6. Concluding remarks
- References
- Part II. Spatial construal of time extended
- Chapter 2. Situating events in language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous work on locating events
- 3. Events in space
- 4. A procedure for event localization
- 5. Non-movement event localization
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Speaking, gesturing, reasoning: Methods and issues in the study of spatial constru
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Spatial construals of time in linguistics
- 2.1 Findings in linguistics
- 3. Spatial construals of time in gesture
- 3.1 Methods in gesture research
- 3.2 Findings from gesture research
- 3.3 Summary
- 4. Spatial construals of time in psychological experiments
- 4.1 Spatial arrangement tasks
- 4.2 Priming studies
- 4.3 Response compatibility studies
- 4.4 Findings from psychological experiments
- 5. The peculiar case of sequence judgments along the sagittal axis
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Temporal language and temporal thinking may not go hand in hand
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The sagittal timeline in English
- 2.1 Directionality in deictic space-time metaphors
- 2.2 Directionality in sequence space-time metaphors
- 2.3 Are there any other timelines in English?
- 3. Evidence for a laterally-oriented mental timeline.
- 4. An experiment: What is the dominant timeline in English speakers' minds?
- 5. When are gestures more informative than words?
- 6. Why do English speakers use a lateral mental timeline?
- 6.1 Do speakers ever use a sagittal timeline in gesture or thought?
- 7. Mental timelines in Darija speakers: Another dissociation between temporal language and thought
- 8. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5. The western conception of time in signed languages: A cognitive linguistic perspe
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cognitive linguistics and signed languages
- 3. Time and culture
- 4. The Western conception of time
- 5. The Western conception of time in signed languages
- 5.1 Time as linear
- 5.2 Time as related to observable phenomena
- 5.3 Time as cyclic
- 5.4 Time as an economic resource
- 6. Summary
- References
- Chapter 6. The mental timeline during the processing of linguistic information
- 1. Mental representation of time
- 2. Mental timeline
- 3. Linguistic relevance of the mental timeline
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Part III. Time conceptualizations beyond space
- Chapter 7. The cultural cognition of time: Some anthropological perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Geophysical and environmental models
- 3. Social models
- 4. The body model
- 5. Time and lexicalisation
- 6. Some problems in the cultural cognition of time
- 6.1 Is time (what some have called "Time as such") a cultural domain and conceptual universal?
- 6.2 Can we conceptualise time without the concept of space?
- 6.3 Why is it necessary to describe one cultural domain in terms of another?
- 6.4 Can the conventional opposition made between linear and cyclic conceptions of time be sustained?
- 6.5 To what extent are notions of time based on shared processes of cognition?
- 6.6 To what extent does consciousness, achieved through culture and augmented by language, mean tha
- 6.7 If all humans operate with some notions of time that exist independent of language, what aspects
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8. When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and tem
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Space-time mappings and temporal relations
- 3. Time-based time intervals and symbolic cognitive artefacts
- 4. Calendars and time reckoning: Anthropological perspectives
- 5. Amondawa culture and society: An overview
- 6. Time intervals in Amondawa language and culture
- 6.1 Method
- 6.2 Task 1. Calendar questionnaire
- 6.3 Task 2. Calendar installation: Seasons
- 6.4 Task 3. Calendar installation: Days
- 7. Time and the human lifespan in Amondawa
- 8. Do Amondawa speakers use space-time constructional mapping?
- 8.1 Task 4. Time landscape game
- 9. Discussion
- 10. Conclusion
- 11. Postscript for this volume
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 9. Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature review
- 2.1 Space-to-time mappings
- 2.2 time is space
- 3. The meaning of time in Chinese
- 3.1 time is nature
- 3.2 time is change
- 3.3 Time and space
- 3.4 Representation of time in modern Chinese
- 4. Time as water
- 5. Concluding remarks
- References
- Appendix
- Part IV. Conceptualizations of temporal categories
- Chapter 10. Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asi
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Major linguistic conceptions of time
- 2.1 Time adverbials and tense
- 2.2 The Time Orientation metaphor
- 2.3 The Moving Time and Moving Observer metaphors
- 3. Deictic time conception in Ainu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ryukyuan
- 3.1 Deictic adverbials of temporal orientation.
- 3.2 Tense markers
- 3.3 Dominant metaphors for time conception
- 4. Motion and orientation in deictic time conception
- 4.1 'Front/back' orientation based on a moving entity
- 4.2 'First, ' 'next, ' 'earlier, ' and 'later'
- 5. Temporal scenery as structured experience of time
- 5.1 Temporal scenery in East Asian languages
- 5.2 Theoretical implications and a further cross-linguistic perspective
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- Chapter 11. Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia: C
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Language data and labels in publications
- 2.1 Burmese markers referring to the past and their labels
- 2.2 Lao markers referring to the past and their labels
- 2.3 Thai markers referring to the past and their labels
- 2.4 Vietnamese markers referring to the past and their labels
- Abbreviations
- References
- Appendix: Transliteration conventions
- Part V. Distributional sources of time conceptualization
- Chapter 12. Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The concept of temporal horizon
- 3. Time and the socializing process
- 4. Measurement of time perspective in psychology
- 5. Reflection of temporal horizon in spontaneous conversations
- 5.1 Research methodology
- 6. Density of temporal horizon
- 7. Extension of temporal horizon
- 8. Alterations of temporal horizon across age groups
- 9. Cognitive schema of temporal horizon
- 10. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix: Explanations for query listings
- Chapter 13. Time-discretising adverbials Distributional evidence of conceptualisation patterns
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodology
- 3. Temporal discretisation patterns as construals
- 4. The data
- 5. Exploratory analysis
- 6. Observations
- 7. Formulaicity analysis.
- 8. Seconds and minutes in English and Polish data: n = 5
- 9. Hours in English and Polish data: n = 8
- 10. Summary
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.