Author: Thora Tenbrink
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: cognitive, linguistic, research, relationships, investigation, time, language, space
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 3110195208
ISBN-13: 9783110195200

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or identical. Also, metaphors consistently express temporal phenomena in terms of spatial language, pointing to a close semantic and conceptual relationship. But what about the application of the two kinds of linguistic expressions in natural discourse? The book draws together findings on terms that describe the relation of objects or events to each other (such as in front / behind, before / after, etc.), highlighting the relationship bet

Authors:Kenny R. Coventry, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: language, space, explorations, dialogue, spatial
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 019955420X
ISBN-13: 9780199554201

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research a

Author: Professor Thora Ilin Bayer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: philosophical, commentary, forms, symbolic, metaphysics, cassirer`s
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0300083319
ISBN-13: 9780300083316

This book—the first commentary on Ernst Cassirer’s The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms—provides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher’s conceptions of symbolic form and human culture. Thora Ilin Bayer focuses on the meaning of Cassirer’s claim that philosophy is not itself a symbolic form but the thought around which all aspects of human activity are seen as a whole. Underlying the symbolic forms are Cassirer’s two metaphysical principles, Spirit (Geist) and Life, which interact to produce the reality of the human world.

Authors:Jones Thora Burnley, De Bear Nicol Bernard,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: criticism, dramatic, classical, neo
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1976-02-19
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521099714
ISBN-13: 9780521099714

This book, which was originally published in 1976, is an interpretation of the thought of the major neo-classical dramatic critics in Italy, France and England during the period 1560-1770. Commentary is based in every case on a careful reading of original texts (by, for instance, Scaliger, Castelvetro, Corneille, D’ Aubignac, Dryden, Johnson, Diderot, Mercier), which have been translated by the authors where necessary and are liberally quoted, and leads to the conclusion that neo-classicism found its natural fulfilment in nineteenth-century naturalism. Far from being academic, artificial