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Time in Languages, Languages in Time

Anna Čermáková,Thomas Egan,Hilde Hasselgård,Sylvi Rørvik
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Author : Anna Čermáková,Thomas Egan,Hilde Hasselgård,Sylvi Rørvik
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258960

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Time in Languages, Languages in Time by Anna Čermáková,Thomas Egan,Hilde Hasselgård,Sylvi Rørvik Pdf

This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable, less work has been carried out on comparing how we talk about time in various languages and how languages change over time. Several methodological challenges are addressed and solutions proposed, such as how to deal with poor quality historical data and how to identify n-grams in typologically different languages for purposes of comparison. The results of the various studies show how multilingual corpora can increase our knowledge of language-specific features as well as linguistic, typological and cultural differences and similarities across languages.

Language and Time

Vyvyan Evans
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Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107043800

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Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.

Language and Time

Quentin Smith
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Author : Quentin Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195348184

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This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference, which holds that "now" refers directly to a time and does not ascribe the property of presentness. Smith does not adopt the old or Fregean theory of reference but develops a third alternative, based on his detailed theory of de re and de dicto propositions and a theory of cognitive significance. He concludes the book with a lengthy critique of Einstein's theory of time. Smith offers a positive argument for absolute simultaneity based on his theory that all propositions exist in time. He shows how Einstein's relativist temporal concepts are reducible to a conjunction of absolutist temporal concepts and relativist nontemporal concepts of the observable behavior of light rays, rigid bodies, and the like.

Time in Language

Wolfgang Klein
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Author : Wolfgang Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136151729

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This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.

Language in Time of Revolution

Benjamin Harshav
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Author : Benjamin Harshav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804735409

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This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity as Jews in a new and baffling world. Reviews "With his customary versatility and lucidity Harshav has given us . . . a host of new and provocative insights into modern Jewish history. . . . This book is an outstanding attempt to juxtapose the revolution in Jewish life with that of the Hebrew language in such a way that each informs our understanding of the other." —Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University "It is no small component of Harshav's success in this altogether fascinating book to have made clear the family resemblance between what is still regularly called 'the almost miraculous revival of the Hebrew language' and the coterie movements of European high modernism in both politics and the arts." —Modernism/Modernity "A wise, original, and stimulating book on the shaping of modern Jewish culture. . . . Humane, deeply erudite, and very satisfying." —Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University "Israeli Hebrew, Angel Sáenz-Badillos has written, 'is not the result of natural evolution but of a process without parallel in the development of any other language.' The precise nature of the process is studied in illuminating detail in Language in Time of Revolution." —London Review of Books "The crisscrossing among the discourses of literature, ideology, history, and linguistics makes for a heady intellectual experience. . . . Harshav writes with great authority and verve. . . . His discussions are a model of clarity." —Alan Mintz, Brandeis University

Language in Time

Peter Auer,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Frank Muller
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Author : Peter Auer,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Frank Muller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195355161

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The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of actual talk-in-interaction.

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
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Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223913

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.

The Structure of Time

Vyvyan Evans
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Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027293787

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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).

The Spatial Language of Time

Kevin Ezra Moore
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Author : Kevin Ezra Moore
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270658

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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.

Time and Human Language Now

Jonathan Boyarin,Martin Land
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Author : Jonathan Boyarin,Martin Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0979405734

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What can you say after you say that the world--or at least human life on it--looks like it's nearing its end? How about starting with wonder at the possibility that dialogue and subjectivity--the bases of human language--are possible now? In Time and Human Language Now two lifelong friends share, in the form of a long-distance e-mail correspondence, a conversation about the relation between cosmos and consciousness, and about the possibility of being responsibly open toward the future without either despair or unreasoning hope. The urgency that underlies this dialogue is the conviction that there can only be reason for hope if the members of homo sapiens can learn--soon--how vital and astonishing is the phenomenon of shared human presence through language.

Politics, Language, and Time

J. G. A. Pocock
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Author : J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226671390

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In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally, "history" of political thought has meant a chronological ordering of intellectual systems without attention to political languages; but it is through the study of those languages and of their changes, Pocock claims, that political thought will at last be studied historically. Pocock argues that the solution has already been approached by, first, the linguistic philosophers, with their emphasis on the importance of language study to understanding human thought, and, second, by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, with its notion of controlling intellectual paradigms. Those paradigms within and through which the scientist organizes his intellectual enterprise may well be seen as analogous to the worlds of political discourse in which political problems are posed and political solutions are proffered. Using this notion of successive paradigms, Pocock demonstrates its effectiveness by analyzing a wide range of subjects, from ancient Chinese philosophy to Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Burke.

Language as a Scientific Tool

Miles MacLeod,Rocío G. Sumillera,Jan Surman,Ekaterina Smirnova
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Author : Miles MacLeod,Rocío G. Sumillera,Jan Surman,Ekaterina Smirnova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317327509

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Language as a Scientific Tool by Miles MacLeod,Rocío G. Sumillera,Jan Surman,Ekaterina Smirnova Pdf

Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse. This opens a window into the particular ways in which scientists have conceived of and construed language as the central medium of their activity across different cultural contexts and places, and the clashes and tensions that have manifested their many attempts to engineer it to both preserve and enrich its function. The subject of language draws out many topics that have mostly been neglected in the history of science, such as the connection between the emergence of national languages and the development of science within national settings, and allows us to connect together historical episodes from many understudied cultural and linguistic venues such as Eastern European and medieval Hebrew science.

Space, Time, and the Use of Language

Thora Tenbrink
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Author : Thora Tenbrink
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198829

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Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or identical. Also, metaphors consistently express temporal phenomena in terms of spatial language, pointing to a close semantic and conceptual relationship. But what about the application of the two kinds of linguistic expressions in natural discourse? The book draws together findings on terms that describe the relation of objects or events to each other (such as in front / behind, before / after, etc.), highlighting the relationship between cognition and language usage. Using the method of cognitively motivated discourse analysis, novel empirical results are presented to complement earlier findings. The detailed investigation of a selected range of terms that appear to be parallel in space and time highlights both similarities and fundamental differences in their application. As a result, a new picture emerges: The concepts of space and time are represented in language usage in various systematic ways, reflecting how we understand the world - and at the same time reflecting how our concepts of space and time differ fundamentally. The volume contributes to a debate that has been of interest for cognitive linguists for several decades, concerning the understanding of transfer processes between two conceptually intertwined domains. The specific contribution of this work consists of addressing the novel question of how such processes come into play in the actual application of relevant expressions in natural discourse. By adopting established approaches from Discourse Analysis for issues that are deeply rooted in interdisciplinary research in Cognitive Science, insights are drawn together from two hitherto largely unrelated fields of research to approach the topic from an original perspective, leading to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the domains of space and time and their expression in language.

The Language of Time

Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas
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Author : Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199268542

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The Language of Time by Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas Pdf

"This book includes selected classic and contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect and event structure; temporal reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal annotation. Introductions to each area provide technicalbackground for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines"--Provided by publisher.

Language in Time and Space

Brigitte L.M. Bauer,Georges-Jean Pinault
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Author : Brigitte L.M. Bauer,Georges-Jean Pinault
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110897722

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Language in Time and Space by Brigitte L.M. Bauer,Georges-Jean Pinault Pdf

The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.