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Is Time a Basic Domain?: reduction of Abstract Domains Trough Metaphor and Metonymy.

Author(s) -

Lorena Pérez Hernández

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

epos revista de filología

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2255-3495

pISSN - 0213-201X

DOI - 10.5944/epos.16.2000.10151

Subject(s) - metonymy , metaphor , trough (economics) , reduction (mathematics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , metaphor and metonymy , linguistics , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , mathematical analysis , economics , macroeconomics

En this paper, we offer a systeraatic clas§ification of both the metaphoric and the metonymic mappings underlying the notion of time in English. The main conclusion which can be drawn from this cognitive approach to the study of time in EngUsh is that time is not a basic notion. For contemporary EngUsh speakers, at least, reasoning and speaking about time always involves some kind of metaphoric or metonymic projection. In addition to this, we have also considered some interesting cases of conceptual interaction, in which independent metaphors and metonymies of time combine with each other in order to make possible the understanding and the expression of complex tem poral thoughts in EngUsh.

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