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Rodríguez, Lydia. 2019. “Time is not a line.” Temporal gestures in Chol Mayan. Journal of Pragmatics 151 : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | gesture | semantics1 | sentence | time deixis

Language as a subject

Chol

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This inquiry supplies gestural proof which displays that speakers of Chol, a Maya language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, do not conceptualize time in terms of abstract mental timelines or axes.