Language In Time

Author : Peter Auer,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Frank Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195109283

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Language in Time by Peter Auer,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Frank Müller Pdf

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.

Author : Wolfgang Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136151729

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Time in Language by Wolfgang Klein Pdf

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.

Author : Quentin Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195348184

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Language and Time by Quentin Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Sattig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199279524

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The Language and Reality of Time by Thomas Sattig Pdf

Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about theworld.The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this pictureis preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics ofpredication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.

Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107043800

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Language and Time by Vyvyan Evans Pdf

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

Author : Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

Author : Jonathan Boyarin,Martin Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0979405734

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Time and Human Language Now by Jonathan Boyarin,Martin Land Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin Harshav
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520912960

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Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav Pdf

This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. It tries to rethink a wide field of cultural phenomena and present the main ideas to the intelligent reader, or, better, present a "family picture" of related and contiguous ideas. Many names and details are mentioned, which may not all be familiar to the uninitiated; their function is to provide some concrete texture for this dramatic story, but the focus is on the story itself.

Author : Kevin Ezra Moore
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270658

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The Spatial Language of Time by Kevin Ezra Moore Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Čermáková,Thomas Egan,Hilde Hasselgård,Sylvi Rørvik
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231151573

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Fate, Time, and Language by David Foster Wallace Pdf

Presents David Foster Wallace critiques philosopher Richard Taylor's work implying that humans have no control over the future and includes essays linking Wallace's critique with his later works of fiction.

Author : Frederick Bodmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 039330034X

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The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer Pdf

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

Author : Brigitte L.M. Bauer,Georges-Jean Pinault
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Author : Miles MacLeod,Rocío G. Sumillera,Jan Surman,Ekaterina Smirnova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

Author : Richard M. Gale
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Time
ISBN : UVA:X000276816

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The Language of Time by Richard M. Gale Pdf