Language and Time - A Cognitive Linguistics Approach

Informationen zum Autor Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University. He has published eight books and published articles in many of the leading journals in language and cognitive science. He is currently writing two general audience books relating to language and mind and serves as President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association and co-editor of the journal Language and Cognition. For further information on his research please visit www.vyvevans.net. Klappentext Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time. Zusammenfassung Using linguistic and conceptual resources to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference! Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Orientation: 1. Introduction; 2. Access semantics; 3. The nature of temporal reference; Part II. Temporal Frames of Reference: 4. Deictic temporal reference; 5. Sequential temporal reference; 6. Extrinsic temporal reference; 7. Time versus space; Part III. Meaning Construction and Temporal Reference: 8. Conceptual metaphors and lexical concepts; 9. Figurative meaning construction in LCCM theory; 10. Semantic affordances and temporal reference; 11. Universals and diversity in the cross-linguistic representation of time.

Product details

• Authors: Vyvyan Evans, Vyvyan (University of Wales Evans, Evans Vyvyan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107043800
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04380-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Cognitive
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc