Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, culture, and cognition

Issue 37. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.

Under the general editorship: Filipović L., Jaszczolt K. M.

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction.

The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes.

Chapters

The “Russian” attitude to time

Apresyan V., , in: Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, culture, and cognitionIssue 37.: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. Ch. 5 P. 103–120.

The chapter explores the semantics and pragmatics of the Russian temporal syntactic phraseme ‘X to X,’ (a construction characterized by a semantically restricted set of lexical items able to fill in its syntactic variables) which expresses either the speaker’s surprise at the fact that events go as planned (surprising punctuality interpretation) or the speaker’s surprise ...

Added: November 1, 2012

Keywords: semantics, семантика, психолингвистика, pragmatics, лексикология, синтаксис, syntax, cognition and language, theoretical linguistics, терминоведение, методы лингвистических исследований, диалектология и лингвистическая география, уралоалтайские языки