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Semiotics and culture: The perception of time as a semiotic problem

Author(s) -

Boris Uspenskij

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

sign systems studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1736-7409

pISSN - 1406-4243

DOI - 10.12697/sss.2017.45.3-4.02

Subject(s) - semiotics , conceptualization , perception , semiotics of culture , phenomenon , epistemology , sociology , time perception , linguistics , philosophy

The perception of time is culturally conditioned which means that in different cultures time may be experienced – perceived, conceptualized and evaluated – in diverse ways. The distinction between past, present and future seems to be a universal phenomenon, but the relations of these categories may be different in different cultural codes. The author defines two models of temporal perception, ‘historical’ and ‘cosmological’, analysing the conceptualization of time in each of them.

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