Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Part I.Time and creativity in language
Chapter 1.A corpus-based look at time metaphors15
Chapter 2.Time moves more often in poetry: A comparative corpus study41
Chapter 3.What is time? Verbal creativity in copula constructions61
Chapter 4.Working on it: The creation of chronological time in political discourse and the democratic meaning of elections81
Part II.Beyond language: Multimodal representations of time
Chapter 5.Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depression101
Chapter 6.Time-creation in film: An embodied cognitive perspective125
Chapter 7.Beyond the limits: Merging past and present in film flashbacks147
Chapter 8.From ‘slow lettuce’ to ‘striated time’: On Pierre Boulez’s conceptualizations of musical temporality163
Chapter 9.Physical and imaginary landmarks in English time gestures187
Chapter 10.Time in Chinese hands: Gesture and sign209
Epilogue.Creative to whom, and on what basis? The role of perspective233
Index243
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