Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity
In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in creative expression? This is the question that the present volume addresses, on the assumption that by interrogating creativity, new insights into our understanding of time may be gained. Our view of creativity, which informs the ten chapters that compose this volume, endorses not only the extraordinary instances found in poetry and the arts (cinema, music, graphic novels, etc.), but also its more ‘mundane’, everyday manifestations that appear in ordinary language use, political discourse, or TV news. Spanning across modalities (verbal, pictorial, auditory, and gestural), the exemplary expressions herein are intended to reflect the richness and diversity vis-à-vis the creativity of time representations while also pointing to the common underpinnings that motivate and constrain creativity.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 November 2022
Published online on 1 November 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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IntroductionAnna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión | pp. 1–12
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Part I. Time and creativity in language
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Chapter 1. A corpus-based look at time metaphorsJavier Valenzuela and Rosa Illán Castillo | pp. 15–40
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Chapter 2. Time moves more often in poetry: A comparative corpus studyRosa Illán Castillo and Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas | pp. 41–60
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Chapter 3. What is time? Verbal creativity in copula constructionsAnna Piata | pp. 61–80
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Chapter 4. Working on it: The creation of chronological time in political discourse and the democratic meaning of electionsLiron Lavi | pp. 81–98
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Part II. Beyond language: Multimodal representations of time
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Chapter 5. Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depressionElisabeth El Refaie | pp. 101–124
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Chapter 6. Time-creation in film: An embodied cognitive perspectiveMaarten Coëgnarts | pp. 125–146
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Chapter 7. Beyond the limits: Merging past and present in film flashbacksAdriana Gordejuela | pp. 147–162
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Chapter 8. From “slow lettuce” to “striated time”: On Pierre Boulez’s conceptualizations of musical temporalityJosé L. Besada | pp. 163–186
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Chapter 9. Physical and imaginary landmarks in English time gesturesDaniel Alcaraz Carrión | pp. 187–208
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Chapter 10. Time in Chinese hands: Gesture and signYan Gu | pp. 209–232
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Epilogue. Creative to whom, and on what basis? The role of perspectiveAlan Cienki | pp. 233–242
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Index | pp. 243–245
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General