4. The nature of meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. I. Orientation
5. 1. The problem of time 3
6. 2. The phenomenology of time 13
7. 3. The elaboration of temporal concepts 33
8. 4. The nature of meaning 39
9. 5. The conceptual metaphor approach to time 57
10. 6. A theory of word-meaning 79
11. II. Concepts for time
12. 7. The Duration Sense 107
13. 8. The Moment Sense 123
14. 9. The Instance Sense 131
15. 10. The Event Sense 135
16. 11. The Matrix Sense 141
17. 12. The Agentive Sense 159
18. 13. The Measurement-system Sense 169
19. 14. The Commodity Sense 177
20. 15. The Present, Past and Future 185
21. III. Models for time
22. 16. Time, motion and agency 201
23. 17. Two complex cognitive models of temporality 211
24. 18. A third complex model of temporality 227
25. 19. Time in modern physics 237
26. 20. The structure of time 251
27. Notes 255
28. References 269
29. Index 277