Title: Understanding Human Time
Series Title: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Editor: Kasia M Jaszczolt
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192896445 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 130
Abstract:

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears. We believe that time passes, we know that death is inevitable, we fear that we are going to be late. How do these human feelings and sensations of time relate to metaphysical time of tenseless reality? What do different languages tell us about the nature of human time? And what exactly is the flow of time? The chapters in this volume bring together insights from linguists and philosophers to examine questions about time on the micro-level of physical reality, as well as time in language and discourse on the macro-level of social reality. The unifying theme is that in order to understand human time we have to discover not only how we think and speak about time, but also what it is that makes us think and speak about it in a certain way.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Language
Semantics

Written In: English (eng)

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