A Cognitive Linguistics Approach / [electronic resource] Evans, Vyvyan creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the assumption that time is straightforwardly structured in terms of space, he shows that while space is important for temporal representation, time is nevertheless separate and distinguishable from it. Evans argues for three distinct temporal frames of reference in language and cognition and evaluates the nature of temporal reference from a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis is that the hallmark of temporal reference is transience, a property unique to the domain of time. This important study has implications not only for the relationship between space and time, but also for that between language and figurative thought, and the nature of linguistically-mediated meaning construction. Vyvyan Evans. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Space and time in language Semantics Cognition P37.5.S65 E923 2013 401/.9 9781107340626 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107340626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107340626 UkCbUP 130222 20180107143414.0 CR9781107340626