15.1202, Books: Cognitive Science: Evans

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Date:  Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Structure of Time: Evans

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Date:  Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Structure of Time: Evans

Title: The Structure of Time
Subtitle: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 12

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HCP_12

Author: Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex

Hardback: ISBN: 9027223645, Pages: x, 287 pp., Price: Europe EURO 95.00

Abstract:

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).

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix

I. Orientation
1. The problem of time  3--11
2. The phenomenology of time  13--32
3. The elaboration of temporal concepts  33--37
4. The nature of meaning  39--56
5. The conceptual metaphor approach to time  57--77
6. A theory of word-meaning: Principled polysemy  79--104

II. Concepts for time
7. The Duration Sense  107--121
8. The Moment Sense  123--130
9. The Instance Sense  131--134
10. The Event Sense  135--140
11. The Matrix Sense  141--157
12. The Agentive Sense  159--167
13. The Measurement-system Sense  169--176
14. The Commodity Sense  177--183
15. The Present, Past and Future  185--198

III. Models for time
16. Time, motion and agency  201--210
17. Two complex cognitive models of temporality  211--226
18. A third complex model of temporality  227--236
19. Time in modern physics  237--249
20. The structure of time  251--254

Notes  255
References  269
Index  277

Lingfield(s):	Cognitive Science

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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