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 as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitut
The relation between experience, conceptual structure and meaning: non-temporal uses of tense and language teaching
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✦ Synopsis
// In M. Puetz, S. Niemeier and R. Dirven (eds.). Applied Cognitive Linguistics I: Theory and Language Acquisition. — Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. — pp. 63-108.
Presents a survey of non-temporal meanings of English tense. Proposals are made for the cognitive-pragmatic interaction which has led to time-reference having developed new semantic-pragmatic functions, such as politeness, epistemic stance, etc. Also considers the implication of the analysis for language teaching.✦ Subjects
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология
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