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Date: 01-Feb-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Structure of Time: Evans 

	
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:07:34
From: Paul Peranteau < 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/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HCP%2012 


Author: Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex

Hardback: ISBN: 9027223645 Pages: x, 286 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 158811466X Pages: x, 286 Price: U.S. $ 114.00
Paperback: ISBN: 902722367X Pages: x, 286 Price: U.S. $ 42.95
Paperback: ISBN: 902722367X Pages: x, 286 Price: Europe EURO 36.00


Abstract:

NEWLY AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

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  

"Time belongs to the bedrock of human cognition. Beginning before birth and
remaining for the most part below the horizon of consciousness, temporal
cognition is a mystery not easily penetrated. The Structure of Time is an
indispensable investigation, rich in theory and examples, into the
phenomenology and the linguistics of the way we think about time." 
Mark Turner, Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University 

"With this work, Cognitive Linguistics finally turns its attention from
Space to Time." 
Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden 

"This work is interesting, creative, thought-provoking, and timely (no pun
intended)" 
Wallace Chafe, University of California at Santa Barbara 

"[...] thought provoking and inspiring. It is a valuable interdisciplinary
source for insight in several domains, including lexical semantics,
conceptual metaphor theory, and cognitive science in the area of time." 
Thora Tenbrink, University of Bremen, Germany, on Linguist List 15-2430 (2004) 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics


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