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Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
[Human Cognitive Processing 65] 2019
► pp. 287–311

Chapter 13
Time domain matrix modeling in cognitive linguistic research

This chapter’s objective is to elaborate the criteria for estimating the proportion of abstractness :: concreteness of the TIME concept. As a device, the time domain matrix profiles time’s ontological features such as its origin, type, qualities, antithesis, object of influence, measure unit, measuring device, and metaphoric correlates. The chapter finds that abstractness :: concreteness of the time domain matrix depends on the type of construal of the world in which it is schemed – scientific (philosophical) or poetic. An overall tendency towards increasing concreteness is identified. This research is based on a corpus of 15,000 collocations with the lexical unit time and its historical equivalents. These collocations are featured in British philosophical and poetic works from corresponding historical periods between the seventh and twentieth centuries.

Keywords: abstractness :: concreteness, construal of the world, ontological time features, time domain matrix
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpora and methods
    • 2.1Corpus data
    • 2.2The method of time domain matrix modeling
    • 2.3Epistemic underpinnings of scientific and nonscientific construals of the world
  • 3.Time domain matrix modeling in British scientific (philosophical) vs. nonscientific (poetic) construals of the world in the seventh to the twentieth century
    • 3.1Abstractness: Concreteness of the time concept in OE construals of the world
    • 3.2Abstractness: Concreteness of the time concept in EME construals of the world
    • 3.3Abstractness: Concreteness of the time concept in LME construals of the world
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 06 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.65.14bon
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