TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Sinha, Chris
A1  - Da Silva Sinha, Vera
A1  - Zinken, Jörg
A1  - Sampaio, Wany
T1  - When time is not space
BT  - The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture
JF  - Language and Cognition
N2  - It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain of time whose linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric mapping from the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. We challenge this assumption on the basis of our research on the Amondawa (Tupi Kawahib)language and culture of Amazonia. Using both observational data and structured field linguistic tasks, we show that linguistic space-time mapping at theconstructional level is not a feature of the Amondawa language, and is not employed by Amondawa speakers (when speaking Amondawa). Amondawa does not recruit its extensive inventory of terms and constructions for spatial motion and location to express temporal relations. Amondawa also lacks a numerically based calendric system. To account for these data, and in opposition to a Universal Space-Time Mapping Hypothesis, we propose a Mediated Mapping Hypothesis, which accords causal importance to the numerical and artefact-based construction of time-based (as opposed to event-based) time interval systems.
KW  - Raum
KW  - Zeit
KW  - kognitive Semantik
KW  - Metapher
KW  - Amazonas
KW  - Space
KW  - Time
KW  - Conceptual metaphor
KW  - Amazonian languages
KW  - Cognitive artefacts
KW  - Amondawa-Sprache
KW  - Tupi-Guarani-Sprachen
KW  - Temporalität
Y1  - 2011
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-33273
SN  - 1866-9859
SS  - 1866-9859
U6  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog.2011.006 (About DOI)
DO  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog.2011.006 (About DOI)
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 137
EP  - 169
ER  -