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Subject(s)

• Space and time in language [Browse]
• Cognition [Browse]
• Psycholinguistics [Browse]

Editor

• Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara [Browse]

Series

• Human cognitive processing ; Volume 52. [More in this series]
• Human Cognitive Processing, 1387-6724 ; Volume 52

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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English

Contents

• Intro
• Conceptualizations of Time
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Introducing conceptualizations of time
• 1. Structure of the volume
• 2. Survey of the chapters
• References
• Part I. Timeless concept of temporality
• Chapter 1. Temporal reference without the concept of time?
• 1. The thesis
• 2. Modal supervenience
• 3. Indispensability of temporal reference?
• 4. Banishing A-theory from metaphysics and from semantics?
• 5. Direct-Quantitative semantics?
• 6. Concluding remarks
• Part II. Spatial construal of time extended
• Chapter 2. Situating events in language
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Previous work on locating events
• 3. Events in space
• 4. A procedure for event localization
• 5. Non-movement event localization
• 6. Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Speaking, gesturing, reasoning: Methods and issues in the study of spatial constru
• 2. Spatial construals of time in linguistics
• 2.1 Findings in linguistics
• 3. Spatial construals of time in gesture
• 3.1 Methods in gesture research
• 3.2 Findings from gesture research
• 3.3 Summary
• 4. Spatial construals of time in psychological experiments
• 4.1 Spatial arrangement tasks
• 4.2 Priming studies
• 4.3 Response compatibility studies
• 4.4 Findings from psychological experiments
• 5. The peculiar case of sequence judgments along the sagittal axis
• Chapter 4. Temporal language and temporal thinking may not go hand in hand
• 2. The sagittal timeline in English
• 2.1 Directionality in deictic space-time metaphors
• 2.2 Directionality in sequence space-time metaphors
• 2.3 Are there any other timelines in English?
• 3. Evidence for a laterally-oriented mental timeline.
• 4. An experiment: What is the dominant timeline in English speakers' minds?
• 5. When are gestures more informative than words?
• 6. Why do English speakers use a lateral mental timeline?
• 6.1 Do speakers ever use a sagittal timeline in gesture or thought?
• 7. Mental timelines in Darija speakers: Another dissociation between temporal language and thought
• 8. Conclusions
• Notes
• Chapter 5. The western conception of time in signed languages: A cognitive linguistic perspe
• 2. Cognitive linguistics and signed languages
• 3. Time and culture
• 4. The Western conception of time
• 5. The Western conception of time in signed languages
• 5.1 Time as linear
• 5.2 Time as related to observable phenomena
• 5.3 Time as cyclic
• 5.4 Time as an economic resource
• 6. Summary
• Chapter 6. The mental timeline during the processing of linguistic information
• 1. Mental representation of time
• 2. Mental timeline
• 3. Linguistic relevance of the mental timeline
• 4. Conclusion
• Part III. Time conceptualizations beyond space
• Chapter 7. The cultural cognition of time: Some anthropological perspectives
• 2. Geophysical and environmental models
• 3. Social models
• 4. The body model
• 5. Time and lexicalisation
• 6. Some problems in the cultural cognition of time
• 6.1 Is time (what some have called "Time as such") a cultural domain and conceptual universal?
• 6.2 Can we conceptualise time without the concept of space?
• 6.3 Why is it necessary to describe one cultural domain in terms of another?
• 6.4 Can the conventional opposition made between linear and cyclic conceptions of time be sustained?
• 6.5 To what extent are notions of time based on shared processes of cognition?.
• 6.6 To what extent does consciousness, achieved through culture and augmented by language, mean tha
• 6.7 If all humans operate with some notions of time that exist independent of language, what aspects
• 7. Conclusion
• Chapter 8. When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and tem
• 2. Space-time mappings and temporal relations
• 3. Time-based time intervals and symbolic cognitive artefacts
• 4. Calendars and time reckoning: Anthropological perspectives
• 5. Amondawa culture and society: An overview
• 6. Time intervals in Amondawa language and culture
• 6.1 Method
• 6.2 Task 1. Calendar questionnaire
• 6.3 Task 2. Calendar installation: Seasons
• 6.4 Task 3. Calendar installation: Days
• 7. Time and the human lifespan in Amondawa
• 8. Do Amondawa speakers use space-time constructional mapping?
• 8.1 Task 4. Time landscape game
• 9. Discussion
• 10. Conclusion
• 11. Postscript for this volume
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 9. Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese
• 2. Literature review
• 2.1 Space-to-time mappings
• 2.2 time is space
• 3. The meaning of time in Chinese
• 3.1 time is nature
• 3.2 time is change
• 3.3 Time and space
• 3.4 Representation of time in modern Chinese
• 4. Time as water
• 5. Concluding remarks
• Appendix
• Part IV. Conceptualizations of temporal categories
• Chapter 10. Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asi
• 2. Major linguistic conceptions of time
• 2.1 Time adverbials and tense
• 2.2 The Time Orientation metaphor
• 2.3 The Moving Time and Moving Observer metaphors
• 3. Deictic time conception in Ainu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ryukyuan
• 3.1 Deictic adverbials of temporal orientation.
• 3.2 Tense markers
• 3.3 Dominant metaphors for time conception
• 4. Motion and orientation in deictic time conception
• 4.1 'Front/back' orientation based on a moving entity
• 4.2 'First,' 'next,' 'earlier,' and 'later'
• 5. Temporal scenery as structured experience of time
• 5.1 Temporal scenery in East Asian languages
• 5.2 Theoretical implications and a further cross-linguistic perspective
• Chapter 11. Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia: C
• 2. Language data and labels in publications
• 2.1 Burmese markers referring to the past and their labels
• 2.2 Lao markers referring to the past and their labels
• 2.3 Thai markers referring to the past and their labels
• 2.4 Vietnamese markers referring to the past and their labels
• Abbreviations
• Appendix: Transliteration conventions
• Part V. Distributional sources of time conceptualization
• Chapter 12. Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance
• 2. The concept of temporal horizon
• 3. Time and the socializing process
• 4. Measurement of time perspective in psychology
• 5. Reflection of temporal horizon in spontaneous conversations
• 5.1 Research methodology
• 6. Density of temporal horizon
• 7. Extension of temporal horizon
• 8. Alterations of temporal horizon across age groups
• 9. Cognitive schema of temporal horizon
• 10. Conclusions
• Appendix: Explanations for query listings
• Chapter 13. Time-discretising adverbials Distributional evidence of conceptualisation patterns
• 2. Methodology
• 3. Temporal discretisation patterns as construals
• 4. The data
• 5. Exploratory analysis
• 6. Observations
• 7. Formulaicity analysis.
• 8. Seconds and minutes in English and Polish data: n = 5
• 9. Hours in English and Polish data: n = 8
• 10. Summary
• Author index
• Subject index.

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