Space and Time in Languages and Cultures
：Language, culture, and cognition
( Human Cognitive Processing )
Publication subTitle ：Language, culture, and cognition
Publication series ： Human Cognitive Processing
Author： Luna Filipović Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9789027273604
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027223913
Subject： H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship
Language： ENG
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Description
This ambitious volume presents state-of-the-art work on how humans represent time and space in different languages, and discusses this work from an explicitly interdisciplinary and empirically driven perspective. [...] Important theoretical debates are touched upon, including questions of linguistic relativity (“thinking for speaking”) and whether localism is the right way to go about grounding one domain in the other. Exciting alternatives are proposed in this regard, suggesting an epistemic foundation for temporality that is primordial and wholly independent of those well-known TIME IS SPACE metaphors in language and thought. I highly recommend this volume to any scholar with a special interest in the universal status of temporal and spatial experiences and their varying realizations across cultures.