Thinking and Speaking about Time : A Cognitive Linguistic Approach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brdar-Szabó, Rita.

Series:

Human Cognitive Processing Series

Human Cognitive Processing Series ; v.81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time perception.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

The book is divided into four major parts: Fundamental issues; Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures; Metaphor, metonymy, and time conceptualization; and Time and grammar.

Contents:

Intro

Epigraph

Table of contents

Thinking and speaking about time

References

Part I Fundamental issues

Chapter 1 Metaphor, myth, and symbol in the grain of time

1. Introduction

2. Linear time and progress

3. Evolution, culture and the return of coevalness

4. Looking back and looking forward in the Anthropocene epoch

Acknowledgments

Chapter 2 Verbs, time and existence

1. Assemblies

2. Time

3. Basic categories

4. Nominals and clauses

5. Existence

6. Clause structure

7. Interactive grounding

8. Conclusion

Extent

Reality

Discursive organization

Universality

Part II Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures

Chapter 3 Yesterday's eve

2. Today

3. Yesterday

3.1 Yesterday + afternoon ~ evening ~ night

3.2 Yesterday + morning

4. Tomorrow

4.1 Tomorrow + morning

4.2 Tomorrow + afternoon ~ evening ~ night

4.3 Tomorrow + yesterday

5. By and by

6. Signed languages

7. Conclusions

Appendix 1. List of sources by language

Appendix 2. Quantitative results

Chapter 4 Event-based time in Amazonian cultures and languages

2. Languages and communities

3. Materials and methods

3.1 Research questions and design of linguistic comparison

3.2 The field work team

3.3 Community engagement and informed consent

3.4 Instruments and procedures

3.5 Data recording, checking, transcription and analysis

4. Results

4.1 Calendar and clock time

4.2 Lexicalisation and indexicalisation of time intervals and temporal landmarks

4.2.1 Life stages

4.2.2 Event-based time and temporal indexicalization

4.2.3 Times of day and night

4.2.4 Seasons

4.2.5 Sun, moon and stars

4.2.6 Awetý and Kamaiurá stars and constellations.

4.2.7 Hybrid calendars

5. Embodied time reckoning

5.1 Numbers in Huni Kuĩ, Awetý and Kamaiurá

5.2 Huni Kuĩ numbers

5.3 Awetý numbers

5.4 Kamaiurá numbers

5.5 Hands, knots and wood marking in time reckoning

5.6 Hands, fingers and knots

5.7 Huni Kuĩ wood marking

6. Space, time, metonymy and metaphor

6.1 Moving Time

6.2 Moving Ego

7. Discussion

Funding

Part III Metaphor, metonymy, and time conceptualization

Chapter 5 Conceptual metaphor and the temporality therein

2. The multi-level view of conceptual metaphor

3. Extending the Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Addendum 1 (level of image schemas)

Addendum 2 (level of mental spaces)

Addendum 3 (levels of domains and frames)

Addendum 4 (levels of domains and frames)

4. Temporality and the levels of metaphor

4.1 Temporality on the level of image schemas

4.2 Temporality on the levels of domains and frames

4.3 Temporality on the level of mental spaces

5. Conclusions

Chapter 6 Drawing the direction of Estonian verbs

2. Theoretical framework

3. Method and data

3.1 Experiment and stimuli

3.2 Procedure and subjects

3.3 Annotation

3.4 Data analysis methods

4.1 Arrows on the drawings

4.2 Directions

4.3 Dominant directions of verbs

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Chapter 7 When Moving Ego meets Moving Time in Finnish

2. Theoretical background

2.1 Syntactic and semantic features of the tulla vastaan construction

2.2 Factive and fictive motion within motion metaphors of time

3. Data and methods

4. Spatial uses of the tulla vastaan construction

4.1 The factive schema

4.2 The fictive schema

5. Temporal uses of the tulla vastaan construction.

6. Discussion and conclusions

Data sources

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Chapter 8 Time, motion, and cyclicity

1. The problem

2. Semantic vectors

3. Collocations

4. Constructional profiles in the Russian National Corpus

5. PP adverbials in the Russian National Corpus

6. NP adverbials in the Russian National Corpus

7. Grammatical objects in the Russian National Corpus

8. Grammatical subjects in the Russian National Corpus

9. Concluding remarks

Chapter 9 Approaching the end of the time metaphor game

2. Methodology and data

3. Moving-Ego metaphors vs. Moving-Time metaphors: "the end of X" constructions from a cross-linguistic perspective

3.1 Moving-Ego metaphors vs. Moving-Time metaphors in Mandarin Chinese

3.2 Moving-Ego metaphors vs. Moving-Time metaphors in Japanese

3.3 Moving-Ego vs. Moving-Time metaphors in Bahasa Indonesia

3.4 A note on Moving-Ego time metaphors in Javanese

3.5 Moving-Time and Moving-Ego metaphors in Turkish

4. Conclusions and further perspectives

Appendix 1. List of abbreviations used in glosses

Chapter 10 The time it takes

1.1 How does aspect relate to time?

1.2 How does aspect relate to language?

1.3 What does metonymy have to do with it?

1.4 The organization of the chapter

2. The problem

2.1 Translation equivalent pairs

2.2 Translation equivalent pairs

3. Quantifying the coding differences

3.1 Hansard corpus results

3.2 Narrative fiction results

4. Accounting for the contrasts

4.1 Conceptual distinctions

4.2 The main thesis

5. Analysis of selected data

5.1 onset of event → whole event

5.2 incipient phase → whole event

5.3 Incipient phase and French preterite (passé simple).

5.4 Incipient phase and French imperfective (imparfait)

6. Metonymic coercion

7. Conclusion and outlook

Appendix 1. Hansard Corpus

Appendix 2. Narrative fiction

Chapter 11 All work and no play make the weekend frame go away?

2. Time, where did you go? Figurative language, time, and distance

3. From news cycle to "news cyclone"8

4. Methodology

5. Results and discussion

Part IV Time and grammar

Chapter 12 The temporal nature of the Hungarian infinitive and participles

2. Reference frame and temporality

3. The processing of intrinsic temporality

4. The temporal content of the Hungarian infinitive and participles

4.1 The infinitive

4.1.1 Dynamicity and temporality in the infinitive

4.2 The adjectival participle

4.2.1 The -ó/-ő adjectival participle

4.2.2 The -t/-tt adjectival participle

4.2.3 The -andó/-endő adjective participle

4.2.4 The adverbial participle

5. Summary

Chapter 13 From temporality to dynamicity

3. Material and methods

3.1 Corpus data

3.2 Data analysis/Analytical categories

4. Results and discussion

4.1 The érint ‒ érintő ('touch' ‒ 'touching') group

4.2 The fut ‒ futó ('run' ‒ 'running') group

4.3 The lát ‒ látó ('see' ‒ 'seeing') group

Chapter 14 Taking stance through grammar

2. Grounding and progressive aspect in Cognitive Grammar

3. Non-temporal uses of the progressive

4. The (present) progressive as a grounding predication

5. Conclusion

Chapter 15 When to open the internal time window?

1. Introduction.

2. The progressive construction in Finnish and the data of analysis

3. Division of labour between stative constructions

4. Grammatical functions of the progressive construction

5. Contextual functions of the progressive construction

6. Conclusions

Abbreviations

Sources

Chapter 16 Time reference, deixis, contextualization

2. The meanings of most 'now'

3. The meaning of most + particle combinations

3.1 Most már and most még

3.2 Már most

3.3 Most éppen

4. Most in the Hungarian clause

4.1 A three-dimensional model of Hungarian

4.2 Most and its deictic role in providing access to the onstage grounded process (D1)

4.3 Most as an extender or overrider (D2)

4.4 Most as an anchoring contextualizer (D3)

5. Summary and conclusions

Chapter 17 The role of demonstrative determiners in temporal reference

2. Time and demonstratives in Estonian

3. Data and analysis

4. Results of the quantitative analysis

5. Referential characteristics of temporal word groups

5.1 Aasta 'year', kuu 'month', nädal 'week', suvi 'summer'

5.2 Aeg 'time', päev 'day', hetk 'moment', õhtu 'evening'

5.3 Tund 'hour', minut 'minute'

6. Discussion and conclusions

Appendix

Index

Index of languages

Index of metaphors and metonymies.

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ISBN:

90-272-4415-4

9789027244154

OCLC:

1570554961