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Time in Language
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Pages: 264
Authors: Wolfgang Klein
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Anna Čermáková
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-17 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swe
Time and Human Language Now
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jonathan Boyarin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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What can you say after you say that the world--or at least human life on it--looks like it's nearing its end? How about starting with wonder at the possibility
The Structure of Time
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Vyvyan Evans
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-05 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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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
Language in Time
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Peter Auer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, t