The spatial language of time
Subtitle: metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference
By: Kevin Ezra Moore, San José State University
Series: Human Cognitive Processing (HCP) -- volume 42
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789027223968; 9789027270658
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Space and time in language; Comparative and general Grammar; Temporal constructions; Metaphor; Metonyms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Talking about time as if it were space; title: The deictic nature of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time expressions; title: The experiential bases (grounding, motivation) of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time; title: From earlier to later; title: Frame of reference and alternate construals of ego-centered time; title: A field-based frame of reference; title: The psychological reality of sequence is relative position on a path; title: Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast : the case of sequence is relative position in a stack; title: Space-to-time metonymy; title: The contrasting front/behind schemas of sequence is relative position on a path and Moving Ego; title: The crosslinguistic pairing of in-front and behind with 'earlier' and 'later'; title: When back is not the opposite of front : a temporal relative frame of reference in Wolof; title: The Ego-opposed temporal metaphor and contexts of shared perspective; title: Modes of construal of front and behind; title: In search of primary metaphors of time; title: Expressions of static temporal "location"; title: Beyond metaphor and metonymy : mental spaces and conceptual integration; title: Other-centered Moving Time and Wolof fekk 'become co-located with'; title: Times as bounded regions; title: Having and wasting Wolof counterparts of time; title: Conclusions.