Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Introducing Conceptualizations of Time (by Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara); 3. Timeless concept of Temporality; 4. Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time? (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 5. Spatial construal of time extended; 6. Situating Events in Language (by Pustejovsky, James); 7. Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning: Methods and Issues in the Study of Spatial Construals of Time (by Walker, Esther J.); 8. Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand (by Casasanto, Daniel); 9. Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (by Kosecki, Krzysztof); 10. The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information (by Eikmeier, Verena); 11. Time conceptualizations beyond space; 12. The cultural cognition of time: Some anthropological perspectives (by Ellen, Roy); 13. When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture (by Sinha, Chris); 14. Metaphor and thought: Conceptualization of time in Chinese (by I-wen Su, Lily); 15. Conceptualizations of temporal categories; 16. Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asian languages (by Izutsu, Katsunobu); 17. Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia - concepts, linguistic area (by Borchers, Dorte); 18. Distributional sources of time conceptualization; 19. Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance (by Walinski, Jacek Tadeusz); 20. Time-discretising adverbials: Distributional evidence of conceptualisation patterns (by Pezik, Piotr); 21. Author index; 22. Subject index

Reviews

A ground-breaking contribution by many of the world's leading scholars on time; this volume constitutes essential reading for anyone with an interest in research on the conceptualisation, cultural manifestations and the linguistics of time.
*Vyvyan Evans, Bangor University*