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The Structure of Time : Language, meaning and temporal cognition.
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitut...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2004.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive events. As such, tempora. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789027293787 9027293783 1282159968 9781282159969 |