The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference /

The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference /

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Author / Creator:	Moore, Kevin Ezra, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 42 Human cognitive processing ; v. 42.
Subject:	Space and time in language. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions. Metaphor. Metonyms. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions. Metaphor. Metonyms. Space and time in language. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11229645

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ISBN:	9789027270658 9027270651 1306705894 9781306705899 9789027223968 9027223963
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific metaph.
Other form:	Print version: Moore, Kevin Ezra. Spatial language of time 9789027223968

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Summary:	The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific metaphor phenomena. Refining earlier treatments of temporal metaphor and adapting to temporal experience Levinson's (2003) idea of frames of reference, the author proposes a contrast between perspective-neutral and perspective-specific frames of reference in temporal metaphor that has important crosslinguistic ramifications for the temporal semantics of FRONT/BEHIND expressions. This book refines the cognitive-linguistic approach to temporal metaphor by analyzing the extensive temporal structure in what has been considered the source domain of space, and showing how temporal metaphors can be better understood by downplaying the space-time dichotomy and analyzing metaphor structure in terms of conceptual frames. This book is of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and others who may have wondered about relationships between space and time.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789027270658 9027270651 1306705894 9781306705899 9789027223968 9027223963
ISSN:	1387-6724 ;