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Message 1: The Structure of Time: Evans
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: paul <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
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
http://www.benjamins.nl/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HCP_12
Author: Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex
Hardback: ISBN: 9027223645, Pages: x, 287 pp., Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Abstract:
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
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