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Space, Time, World Michael Fortescue
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fortescue, Michael D., author.
- Series:
- Human Cognitive Processing 1387-6724 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropological Linguistics.
- Cognition and language.
- Cognitive linguistics.
- Semantics.
- Theoretical linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropological Linguistics.
- Cognition and language.
- Cognitive linguistics.
- Semantics.
- Theoretical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pp )
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024
- Summary:
- Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of "Frames of Reference", these do not extend to a wide selection of the world's languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of reference. The aim of relating and unifying these concepts and their expression across languages constitutes the unique thrust of the present book, which will represent a significant extension of earlier approaches. Among its main conclusions will be that the complete separation of terms for SPACE and TIME is a relatively recent cultural phenomenon, rather than just a metaphorical extension of the latter from the former. The book will be of interest to all students and practitioners of Linguistics, in particular Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic typology, but also to a more general readership interested in the historical evolution of concepts of SPACE and TIME. Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Words for Space and Time
- Chapter 3. Words for World
- Chapter 4. The relationship between Space, Time and World
- Chapter 5. The traditional Inuit World
- Chapter 6. Grammatical Space and Time
- Chapter 7. Being in Space and Time
- Chapter 8. Orientation, local and wider scale
- Chapter 9. Frames of reference revisited
- Chapter 10. Psychological approaches
- Chapter 11. The world we grew up in
- Chapter 12. Simulation
- Chapter 13. Canonical fictional and non-fictional worlds
- Chapter 14. Some non-canonical worlds
- Chapter 15. Maps and cosmologies, ancient and modern
- Chapter 16. Earth's Deep Time
- Chapter 17. Measuring Space, Time and the World
- Chapter 18. Conclusions
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Hardbound version:
- ISBN:
- 9789027247193
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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