Showing papers by "Jens Brockmeier published in 1995"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that to talk about time and temporality is to construct the way a semiotic fabric web is constructed, and propose a linguistic approach to time that has less to do with the grammatical aspects of language than with language seen as a system of action and of interaction.
Abstract: This paper examines “time” as a category of the mind. I argue that to talk about time and temporality is to talk about the way a semiotic fabric web is constructed. In particular, I shall deal with the linguistic construction of our ideas and concepts of time. Two levels of analysis will be outlined. On the level of the general relation between time and language, I will deal with the issue of how different languages construct different perspectives of time. On the level of the personal construction of time, I will discuss aspects of the individual's time‐synthesis. On the level of the personal construction of time, I will discuss aspects of the individual's time‐synthesis. On both levels the suggested linguistic approach to time has less to do with the grammatical aspects of language than with language seen as a system of action and of interaction. In the wake of Wittgenstein and Vygotsky, this is a view of language as a cultural system of discursive practices. Among these practices, I shall focus on what...
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