The Structure of Time

Name: The Structure of Time | Language, meaning and temporal cognition
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Language, meaning and temporal cognition

Vyvyan Evans(Author)

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Published on 5. March 2004

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The Structure of Time
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
dedication
Sonnet XII
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Orientation
The problem of time
1.1. The metaphysical problem and the linguistic problem
1.2. Temporal cognition
1.3. Why should we be interested in investigating time?
1.4. Introduction to the rest of the book
The phenomenology of time
2.1. Temporal concepts and event-comparison
2.2. The phenomenological basis of time
2.3. Studies investigating the experience of duration
2.4. Investigations of temporal experience as ``felt''
2.5. Temporal processing
2.6. Perceptual moments as the basis for the experience of duration
2.7. The perceptual moment and the experience of now
2.8. Discourse, consciousness and time
2.9. The primacy of subjective experience
2.10. Conclusion
The elaboration of temporal concepts
3.1. Intermodal connections and cognition
3.2. Subjective concepts and levels of cognitive processing
3.3. Conclusion
The nature of meaning
4.1. Meaning, experience and the nature of evolution
4.2. The embodiment of meaning
4.3. The experiential basis of conceptual meaning
4.4. Experiential correlation
4.5. Perceptual resemblance
4.6. Perception and `reality'
4.7. Perceptual analysis
4.8. On the meaning of words
4.9. Dictionaries versus encyclopaedias
4.10. Meaning and truth
4.11. Conclusion
The conceptual metaphor approach to time
5.1. Primary and compound metaphors
5.2. The moving time and moving ego mappings
5.3. Evaluating moving time and moving ego as instancs of primary metaphor
5.3.1. The problem of unelaborated time
5.3.2. The problem of cultural constructs
5.3.3. The problem of complex concepts
5.4. Implications for the primary metaphor approach
5.5. Implications for the present study
5.6. Conclusion
A theory of word-meaning
6.1. Traditional views of lexical structure
6.1.1. The `distributed' nature of word-meaning
6.1.2. Polysemy
6.1.3. Grammatical considerations
6.2. Alternative approaches to lexical concepts
6.3. Meaning-extension as a principled process
6.3.1. The modelling issue
6.3.2. The methodological issue: Determining distinct senses
6.3.3. The methodological issue: Determining the Sanctioning Sense
6.3.4. The origination issue
6.3.5. The actuation issue
6.4. Principled polysemy
6.5. Conclusion
Part II. Concepts for time
The Duration Sense
7.1. Defining the Duration Sense
7.2. Evidence for the Duration Sense
7.3. Duration as the Sanctioning Sense
7.4. Elaboration in terms of physical length
7.5. Elaboration in terms of quality of experience
7.6. Temporal compression and protracted duration
7.7. Elaboration of temporal compression and protracted duration
7.8. An overview of the semantic network
7.9. Conclusion
The Moment Sense
8.1. Evidence for the Moment Sense
8.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
8.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
8.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
8.2. The Moment Sense versus the Duration Sense
8.3. Deriving the Moment Sense
8.4. Conclusion
The Instance Sense
9.1. Evidence for the Instance Sense
9.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
9.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
9.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
9.2. Derivation of the Instance Sense
9.3. Conclusion
The Event Sense
10.1. Evidence for the Event Sense
10.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
10.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
10.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
10.2. Further examples
10.3. Derivation of the Event Sense
10.4. Conclusion
The Matrix Sense
11.1. Evidence for the Matrix Sense
11.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
11.1.2. The Grammatical Criterion
11.2. Concept elaboration employing motion content
11.3. Elaboration employing non-motion content
11.4. Derivation of the Matrix Sense
11.5. Conclusion
The Agentive Sense
12.1. Evidence for the Agentive Sense
12.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
12.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
12.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
12.2. Comparison with Lakoff and Turner (1989)
12.3. Derivation of the Agentive Sense
12.4. Conclusion
The Measurement-system Sense
13.1. Evidence for the Measurement-system Sense
13.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
13.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
13.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
13.2. Periodicity and the co-ordination of activity
13.3. Derivation of the Measurement-system Sense
13.4. Conclusion
The Commodity Sense
14.1. Evidence for the Commodity Sense
14.1.1. The Meaning Criterion
14.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion
14.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion
14.2. Derivation of the Commodity Sense
14.3. Conclusion
The Present, Past and Future
15.1. Present, Past and Future
15.2. The Present and concept elaboration
15.3. The Past and Future, and concept elaboration
15.4. Cross-cultural differences: Aymara
15.5. Mandarin and the Temporal Sequence Model
15.6. Conclusion
Part III. Models for time
Time, motion and agency
16.1. Time and motion
16.2. Motion and concept elaboration
16.3. Motion and agency
16.4. Conclusion
Two complex cognitive models of temporality
17.1. Moving Time and Moving Ego as Complex Cognitive models
17.2. Evidence for Complex Moving Time
17.3. The Complex Moving Time model
17.4. Evidence for the Complex Moving Ego model
17.5. The Complex Moving Ego model
17.6. Complex Moving Time versus Complex Moving Ego
17.7. Levels of conceptual organisation
17.8. Primary scenes and grounding scenarios
17.9. Conclusion
A third complex model of temporality
18.1. Sequencing relations
18.2. The Complex Temporal Sequence model
18.3. The Complex Temporal Sequence model in Hausa
18.4. Earlier/later and the vertical axis
18.5. Conclusion
Time in modern physics
19.1. The rise of relativity
19.2. Time in special relativity
19.3. Spacetime
19.4. Bergson's view of Einsteinian time
19.5. Conclusion
The structure of time
20.1. Two problems of time
20.2. A richer view
20.2.1. The inherent structure of time: Time as process
20.2.2. The ascribed structure of time: Time as object
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
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