Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English (Paperback)

Maciej Litwin

ISBN 10: 3631658680 / ISBN 13: 9783631658680

Published by Peter Lang AG, Bern, 2015

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Paperback. Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotles epistemology builds on the conceptualisation of a subject manipulating objects in the visual field. Saint Augustine and Plotinus conceive of time and identity as real and contingent or figurative and necessary. William of Ockham builds on a simple conceptualisation of a time-point matrix as opposed to a duration matrix. British National Corpus findings relate to and comment on these expert philosophical conversations through the medium of cognitive models of innovation and creation, instruments of thought and reason in English. Cognitive linguistics offers tools to discuss philosophical problems of being and becoming (identity) as necessary or contingent. Major positions on these questions can be explained based on human counterfactual thought. Conceptualisations of innovation and creation in English (as instantiations of being and becoming) build on construal of time as actually experienced or figurative. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English (Paperback)
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Bern
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631658680
• ISBN 13: 9783631658680
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotle’s epistemology builds on the conceptualisation of a subject manipulating objects in the visual field. Saint Augustine and Plotinus conceive of time and identity as real and contingent or figurative and necessary. William of Ockham builds on a simple conceptualisation of a time-point matrix as opposed to a duration matrix. British National Corpus findings relate to and comment on these expert philosophical conversations through the medium of cognitive models of «innovation» and «creation», instruments of thought and reason in English.

About the Author

Maciej Litwin is an assistant professor of English (linguistics/translation studies) at the University of Wrocław. He previously worked as an executive for the City of Wrocław, Poland, where he developed key ingredients of the municipal innovation portfolio (2006–2014).