Format:
xii, 189 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781107194038
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9781316645284
Content:
"Time is fundamental to human experience; we live through it and, thus, seek to better understand it - often by way of metaphor. By bringing together research from across disciplines, this pioneering book explores the array of interacting factors that together give rise to our metaphoric understanding of time"--
Content:
Across languages, time tends to be understood in terms of space. For instance, we might think of time as an unstoppable train heading towards us when we hear 'holidays arecoming', or we might imagine timeas a landscape that we move across as we 'approach the moment of truth'. In this pioneering book, Duffy and Feist bring together research from across disciplines to provide a more nuanced understanding of what metaphor is and how it underpins our conceptualizations of time. Illustrated with a wide range of authentic examples from natural language, the book offers a holistic understanding of metaphors for time, encompassing the varied ways in which people draw on spatial experiences, as well as the broader variety of 'human experience' on an individual level. In doing so, it highlights the importance of variation across cultures, across contexts, and across individuals for metaphoric conceptualization
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 159-186
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The theory of metaphor: from language to cognition -- Metaphor beyond language: testing the conceptual connections -- Time in space: cross-linguistic variation and metaphor -- Conceptualizing time through language and space -- Bringing in the cognizer -- Time across paradigms.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108150101
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Duffy, Sarah E. Time, metaphor, and language Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 ISBN 9781108150101
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107194038
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316645284
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1017/9781108150101
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