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The Structure of Time: Evans
Message 1: The Structure of Time: Evans
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Date: 01-Feb-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: The Structure of Time: Evans
Title: The Structure of Time
Subtitle: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 12
Published: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HCP%2012
Author: Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex
Hardback: ISBN: 9027223645 Pages: x, 286 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 158811466X Pages: x, 286 Price: U.S. $ 114.00
Paperback: ISBN: 902722367X Pages: x, 286 Price: U.S. $ 42.95
Paperback: ISBN: 902722367X Pages: x, 286 Price: Europe EURO 36.00
Abstract:
NEWLY AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since
pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time,
asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does
it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,
constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in
psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive
linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately
derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive
events. As such, temporal experience is a pre-requisite for abilities such
as event perception and comparison, rather than an abstraction based on
such phenomena. The book represents an examination of the nature of
temporal cognition, with two foci: (i) an investigation into
(pre-conceptual) temporal experience, and (ii) an analysis of temporal
structure at the conceptual level (which derives from temporal experience).
Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
I. Orientation
1. The problem of time 3-11
2. The phenomenology of time 13-32
3. The elaboration of temporal concepts 33-37
4. The nature of meaning 39-56
5. The conceptual metaphor approach to time 57-77
6. A theory of word-meaning: Principled polysemy 79-104
II. Concepts for time
7. The Duration Sense 107-121
8. The Moment Sense 123-130
9. The Instance Sense 131-134
10. The Event Sense 135-140
11. The Matrix Sense 141-157
12. The Agentive Sense 159-167
13. The Measurement-system Sense 169-176
14. The Commodity Sense 177-183
15. The Present, Past and Future 185-198
III. Models for time
16. Time, motion and agency 201-210
17. Two complex cognitive models of temporality 211-226
18. A third complex model of temporality 227-236
19. Time in modern physics 237-249
20. The structure of time 251-254
Notes 255
References 269
Index 277
"Time belongs to the bedrock of human cognition. Beginning before birth and
remaining for the most part below the horizon of consciousness, temporal
cognition is a mystery not easily penetrated. The Structure of Time is an
indispensable investigation, rich in theory and examples, into the
phenomenology and the linguistics of the way we think about time."
Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University
"With this work, Cognitive Linguistics finally turns its attention from
Space to Time."
Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
"This work is interesting, creative, thought-provoking, and timely (no pun
intended)"
Wallace Chafe, University of California at Santa Barbara
"[...] thought provoking and inspiring. It is a valuable interdisciplinary
source for insight in several domains, including lexical semantics,
conceptual metaphor theory, and cognitive science in the area of time."
Thora Tenbrink, University of Bremen, Germany, on Linguist List 15-2430 (2004)
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
Linguistic Theories
Semantics
Written In: English (eng )
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