8. Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of diagrams xv
4. List of tables xvii
5. Abbreviations and special symbols xix
6. Transcription conventions xxi
7. Acknowledgments xxiii
8. Part I. Temporal metaphor and ego’s perspective
9. 1. Introduction 3
10. 2. The deictic nature of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time expressions 21
11. 3. The experiential bases (grounding, motivation) of Moving Ego and Ego-centered Moving Time 29
12. 4. From earlier to later 43
13. 5. Frame of reference and alternate construals of ego-centered time 51
14. Part II. Perspectival neutrality
15. 6. A field-based frame of reference 65
16. 7. The psychological reality of sequence is relative position on a path 81
17. 8. Illustrating the field-based/ego-perspective contrast 87
18. 9. Space-to-time metonymy 95
19. Part III. The temporal semantics of in-front and behind
20. 10. The contrasting front/behind schemas of sequence is relative position on a path and Moving Ego 107
21. 11. The crosslinguistic pairing of in-front and behind with ‘earlier’ and ‘later’ 121
22. 12. The alignment of ego with a field-based frame of reference 133
23. 13. When back is not the opposite of front 153
24. 14. The Ego-opposed temporal metaphor and contexts of shared perspective 169
25. 15. Modes of construal of front and behind 191
26. 16. In search of primary metaphors of time 207
27. Part IV. Location without translational motion
28. 17. Expressions of static temporal “location” 215
29. 18. Beyond metaphor and metonymy 227
30. 19. Other-centered Moving Time and Wolof fekk ‘become co-located with’ 235
31. 20. Times as bounded regions 263
32. Part V. Fundamentally different temporal concepts
33. 21. Having and wasting Wolof counterparts of time 273
34. 22. Conclusions 301
35. References 319
36. Name index 335
37. Subject index 337