Full Description
As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in language, including sign language, and gestures, on the other. The contributions of the volume demonstrate that time is conceptualized not only in terms of space but in terms of other domains of human experience as well.
Renowned specialists in the study of time, the authors of this volume investigate this fascinating topic from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, linguistic, anthropological, (neuro)psychological, and computational - demonstrating a familiarity with both classical and recent approaches to the study of time and including up-to-date corpus-based methods of study.
The volume will be of interest to philosophers, linguists (including specialists in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics), anthropologists, (neuro)psychologists, translators, language teachers, and graduate students.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Introducing Conceptualizations of Time (by Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara); 3. Timeless concept of Temporality; 4. Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time? (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 5. Spatial construal of time extended; 6. Situating Events in Language (by Pustejovsky, James); 7. Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning: Methods and Issues in the Study of Spatial Construals of Time (by Walker, Esther J.); 8. Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand (by Casasanto, Daniel); 9. Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (by Kosecki, Krzysztof); 10. The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information (by Eikmeier, Verena); 11. Time conceptualizations beyond space; 12. The cultural cognition of time: Some anthropological perspectives (by Ellen, Roy); 13. When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture (by Sinha, Chris); 14. Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese (by I-wen Su, Lily); 15. Conceptualizations of temporal categories; 16. Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asian languages (by Izutsu, Katsunobu); 17. Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia - concepts, linguistic area (by Borchers, Dorte); 18. Distributional sources of time conceptualization; 19. Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance (by Walinski, Jacek Tadeusz); 20. Time-discretising adverbials: Distributional evidence of conceptualisation patterns (by Pezik, Piotr); 21. Author index; 22. Subject index
