The spatial language of time [Texte imprimé] : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference / Kevin Ezra Moore

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Introduction: Talking about time as if it were space -- The deictic nature of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time expressions -- The experiential bases (grounding, motivation) of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time -- From earlier to later -- Frame of reference and alternate construals of ego-centered time -- A field-based frame of reference -- The psychological reality of sequence is relative position on a path -- Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast : the case of sequence is relative position in a stack -- Space-to-time metonymy -- The contrasting front/behind schemas of sequence is relative position on a path and Moving Ego -- The crosslinguistic pairing of in-front and behind with 'earlier' and 'later' -- When back is not the opposite of front : a temporal relative frame of reference in Wolof -- The Ego-opposed temporal metaphor and contexts of shared perspective -- Modes of construal of front and behind -- In search of primary metaphors of time -- Expressions of static temporal "location" -- Beyond metaphor and metonymy : mental spaces and conceptual integration -- Other-centered Moving Time and Wolof fekk 'become co-located with' -- Times as bounded regions -- Having and wasting Wolof counterparts of time -- Conclusions