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ToolsSinha, Chris, da Silva Sinha, Vera, Zinken, Jörg and Sampaio, Wany (2016) When Time Is Not Space:The Social and Linguistic Construction of Time Intervals and Temporal Event Relations in an Amazonian Culture. In: Conceptualizations of Time. Human Cognitive Processing . John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 151-186. ISBN 9789027246684
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It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain of time whose linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric mapping from the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. We challenge this assumption on the basis of our research on the Amondawa (Tupi Kawahib) language and culture of Amazonia. Using both observational data and structured field linguistic tasks, we show that linguistic space-time mapping at the constructional level is not a feature of the Amondawa language, and is not employed by Amondawa speakers (when speaking Amondawa). Amondawa does not recruit its extensive inventory of terms and constructions for spatial motion and location to express temporal relations. Amondawa also lacks a numerically based calendric system. To account for these data, and in opposition to a Universal Space-Time Mapping Hypothesis, we propose a Mediated Mapping Hypothesis, which accords causal importance to the numerical and artefact-based construction of time-based (as opposed to event-based) time interval systems.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2023 01:03 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 08:26 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93938 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/hcp.52.08sin |
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