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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures : Language, Culture, and Cognition /
This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human co. |
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| Notas: | 1. The conceptual category of motion and language diversity. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. ReferencesIII. Conceptualizing spatio-temporal relations; 9. Linguistic manifestations of the space-time (dis) analogy; 1. Preliminaries; 2. The extensive noun-verb parallelism; 3. Asymmetries; 4. The multiple roles of time; 5. The dynamic conception of space; 6. Summation; References; 10. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec; 1. Introduction; 2. Orientation and frames of reference; 3. Data collection and methods; 4. Seri and Yucatec data; 5. Frames of reference and vectors; 6. Conclusion; References; 11. Verbal and gestural expression of motion in French and Czech. |
| ISBN: | 9789027273604 902727360X 1281141216 9781281141217 9786613776686 6613776688 |