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Space, Time, World / Michael Fortescue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fortescue, Michael D., author.
- Series:
- Human Cognitive Processing Series
- Human Cognitive Processing Series ; Volume 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in language.
- Cosmology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book aims to relate and unify the concepts of SPACE and TIME in the concept of WORLD. 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.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- M. C. Escher: The three Worlds
- Table of contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I
- 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
- Part II
- 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. Earths Deep Time
- Chapter 17. Measuring Space, Time and the World
- Chapter 18. Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- References
- Appendices
- Appendix 1. Words for Sky, Air, and Weather
- Appendix 2. Words for being and becoming in non-IE languages
- Appendix 3. A tentative taxonomy of worlds
- Subject index
- Name index
- Language index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fortescue, Michael Space, Time, World
- ISBN:
- 9789027247193
- OCLC:
- 1417758757
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