Representing time: an essay on temporality as modality
"Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? D...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come from? Are they basic concepts or are they composed out of more primitive constituents? And, finally, what is the semantics of expressions with temporal reference?" "This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance. Dr Jaszczolt presents theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from Indo-European and non-IndoEuropean languages to show that speakers represent the past, present, and future as degrees of epistemic modality. She argues that temporality can be subsumed under the general label of acceptability or attitude and, rather like the semantic category of evidentiality, founded on the strength of evidence." "In the approach she develops, modality provides basic conceptual building blocks for the concept of time as well as semantic building blocks for representing temporal expressions in her framework of Default Semantics. Dr Jaszczolt sets the results of her research in the context of linguistic and philosophical work in semantics and pragmatics."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
vii
Figures x
Abbreviations and symbols
xii
Introduction: Thinking about time and living in time
ι
ι
Real time and the concept of time
5
1.1
Einstein s legacy
5
1.2
Time consciousness
7
1.3
The direction of time: A solution to McTaggart s paradox?
14
1.4
Time and the observer: Back to the future?
28
1.5
Concluding statement
30
2
Time as modality
32
2.1
Certainty and degrees of commitment j
2.2
The concept of the future
50
2.3
Now. The concept of the present
64
2.4
The concept of the past
72
2.5
Temporal markers in discourse
82
2.5.1
Tense
82
2.5.2
A note on some relevant
adverbiais
91
2.6
Conclusion
95
3
Semantic representation of time: A preamble
96
3.1
Semantic structures and cognitive reality
96
3.2
Situations and eventualities
103
4
Time in Default Semantics
124
4.1
Primary meaning, merger representation, and pragmatic
compositionality
124
4.2
Merger representations for the future, present, and past
137
4.2.1
Representing the future
140
vi
Contents
4.2.2
Representing the present
154
4.2.3
Representing the past
158
4.3
Summing up
164
Conclusion: Looking forward into the future
165
References
167
Index
181
Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do
human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability
ortense
vary in
différent
languages? How do the lines
ofinformation
from tense, aspect,
temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If
real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come
from? Are they basic concepts or are they composed out of more primitive constitu¬
ents? And, finally, what is the semantics of expressions with temporal reference? This
book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located
utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to
mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning
the eventuality referred to in the speaker s utterance.
Dr
Jaszczolt presents theoret¬
ical arguments and empirical evidence from Indo-European and non-Indo-European
languages to show that speakers represent the past, present, and future as degrees of
epistemic
modality. She argues that temporality can be subsumed under the general
label of acceptability or attitude and, rather like the semantic category of eviden-
tiality, founded on the strength of evidence. In the approach she develops, modality
provides basic conceptual building blocks for the concept of time as well as semantic
building blocks for representing temporal expressions in her framework of Default
Semantics.
Dr
Jaszczolt sets the results of her research in the context of linguistic and
philosophical work in semantics and pragmatics.
Kasía M.
Jaszezoit (pronounced: Yashchout) is Reader in Linguistics and
Philosophy of Language at the Department of Linguistics. University of Cambridge,
and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her books include Discourse, Beliefs
and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Proportional Attitude Ascription
(1999),
Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse
(2002),
and
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