Language and time : a cognitive linguistics approach / Vyvyan Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Vyvyan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language.

Semantics.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Language & Time

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the assumption that time is straightforwardly structured in terms of space, he shows that while space is important for temporal representation, time is nevertheless separate and distinguishable from it. Evans argues for three distinct temporal frames of reference in language and cognition and evaluates the nature of temporal reference from a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis is that the hallmark of temporal reference is transience, a property unique to the domain of time. This important study has implications not only for the relationship between space and time, but also for that between language and figurative thought, and the nature of linguistically-mediated meaning construction.

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

pt. 1: Orientation

Introduction

Access semantics

pt. 2: Temporal frames of reference

The nature of temporal reference

Deictic temporal reference

Sequential temporal reference

Extrinsic temporal reference

Time versus space

pt. 3: Meaning construction and temporal reference

Conceptual metaphors and lexical concepts

Figurative meaning construction in LCCM Theory

Semantic affordances and temporal reference

Universals and diversity in the cross linguistic representation of time

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-70322-0

1-139-89366-1

1-107-69315-2

1-107-70400-6

1-107-59873-7

1-107-34062-4

1-107-67060-8

OCLC:

862126057