Time: Language, Cognition & Reality

by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (Editor), Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Editor), Louis de Saussure (Editor)

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all over the world examine and report on recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, temporal adverbials, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between events and states, as well as between facts, propositions, sentences, and utterances. They link this to currentresearch on the cognitive processing of temporal reference, linguistic and philosophical semantics, psychology, and anthropology. The book is divided into three Time, Tense, and Temporal Reference in Discourse; Time and Modality; and Cognition and Metaphysics of Time. It will interest scholarsand advanced students of time and temporal reference in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science.

308 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Katarzyna M. "Kasia" Jaszczolt (1963-) is a Polish and British linguist and philosopher. She is currently Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Jaszczolt received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Her academic career combines interests in meaning in natural language and in communication with interests in philosophy of language and mind, epistemology and metaphysics