Language and Time: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach

摘要: Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In first book-length taxonomy temporal frames reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview role space structuring human representations time. Challenging assumption straightforwardly structured terms space, he shows while important for representation, nevertheless separate distinguishable from it. argues three distinct reference cognition evaluates nature a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis hallmark transience, property unique domain This study has implications not only relationship between time, but also figurative thought, linguistically-mediated meaning construction.