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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor
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Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Susan Goldin-Meadow
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers—adults and children al
The Spatial Language of Time
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Kevin Ezra Moore
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof
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Authors: Edward Sapir
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Professor Sapir analyzes, for student and common reader, the elements of language. Among these are the units of language, grammatical concepts and their origins
The Structure of Time
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Vyvyan Evans
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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