Conceptualizations of Time

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Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | State University of Applied Sciences in Konin

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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.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 June 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.52

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–viii

Introduction: Introducing Conceptualizations of Time

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | pp. ix–xxii

Timeless concept of Temporality

Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time?

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt | pp. 3–24

Spatial construal of time extended

Situating Events in Language

James Pustejovsky | pp. 27–42

Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning: Methods and Issues in the Study of Spatial Construals of Time

Esther J. Walker and Rafael Núñez | pp. 43–66

Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand

Daniel Casasanto | pp. 67–84

Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Krzysztof Kosecki | pp. 85–102

The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information

Verena Eikmeier, Simone Alex-Ruf, Claudia Maienborn, Hannes Schröter and Rolf Ulrich | pp. 103–122

Time conceptualizations beyond space

The cultural cognition of time: Some anthropological perspectives

Roy Ellen | pp. 125–150

When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture

Chris Sinha, Vera da Silva Sinha, Jörg Zinken and Wany Sampaio | pp. 151–186

Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese

Lily I-Wen Su | pp. 187–204

Conceptualizations of temporal categories

Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asian languages

Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu | pp. 207–242

Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia – concepts, linguistic area

Dörte Borchers | pp. 243–270

Distributional sources of time conceptualization

Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance

Jacek Tadeusz Waliński | pp. 273–294

Time-discretising adverbials: Distributional evidence of conceptualisation patterns

Piotr Pęzik and Mikołaj Deckert | pp. 295–316

Author index | pp. 317–322

Subject index | pp. 323–325

“A ground-breaking contribution by many of the world's leading scholars on time; this volume constitutes essential reading for anyone with an interest in research on the conceptualisation, cultural manifestations and the linguistics of time.”

Vyvyan Evans, Bangor University

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