The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning And Temporal Cognition (Human Cognitive Processing, Volume 12 / Band 12)

Vyvyan, Evans

ISBN 10: 902722367X / ISBN 13: 9789027223678

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

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258 Seiten. Leicht berieben, sonst gut. K01-6 ISBN 902722367x Wichtiger Hinweis: Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung zur Zeit KEIN Versand in EU-Länder. Due to EPR, there is currently no delivery to EU-countries. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning And Temporal Cognition (Human Cognitive Processing, Volume 12 / Band 12)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902722367X
• ISBN 13: 9789027223678
• Binding: 24,5*16,5 cm. OBroschur.
• Weight: 650 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Wissenschaft

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Synopsis

One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive events. As such, temporal experience is a pre-requisite for abilities such as event perception and comparison, rather than an abstraction based on such phenomena. The book represents an examination of the nature of temporal cognition, with two foci: (i) an investigation into (pre-conceptual) temporal experience, and (ii) an analysis of temporal structure at the conceptual level (which derives from temporal experience).

About the Author

Vyvyan Evans is a member of faculty in the department of Linguistics and English Language, and the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, UK. He is also author (with Andrea Tyler) of "The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition".