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“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”

TIME MOTION: RIGHT OR LEFTWARD?


Author:  S.A. Chugunova

Affiliation:  Bryansk State University named after I.G. Petrovsky

Abstract
The article deals with the problem of conceptualization of time from an embodied cognition approach. The results of a series of experiments reveal the crucial role of the human body experience for temporal cognition; the accent is made on the corporeal left/right axis.

Keywords:  concepts of time, temporal cognition, corporeal axis, temporal semantics, body experience

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