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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Structure of Time; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication; Sonnet XII; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part I. Orientation; The problem of time; The phenomenology of time; The elaboration of temporal concepts; The nature of meaning; The conceptual metaphor approach to time; A theory of word-meaning; Part II. Concepts for time; The Duration Sense; The Moment Sense; The Instance Sense; The Event Sense; The Matrix Sense; The Agentive Sense; The Measurement-system Sense; The Commodity Sense; The Present, Past and Future; Part III. Models for time; Time, motion and agency.