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The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning And Temporal Cognition (Human Cognitive Processing)

By Vyvyan Evans

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9789027223678, 902722367X
Open Library ID
OL9095038M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2391072 bytes)
Pages
286\298
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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).

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