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CONCEPTUALIZATION OF TIME FROM THE EMBODIED COGNITION APPROACH

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF TIME FROM THE EMBODIED COGNITION APPROACH


Author:  S.A. Chugunova

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

Abstract
The article holds that from the phenomenological point of view and the theory of conceptual metonymy temporality constitutes a real experience. Cognition is temporal at base, and opposition of primary and secondary concepts is in many respects a convention. Conceptualization of time is much dependent on the two body directions or axes: the front/back axis and the bottom/up axis. As a rule, the left/right body axis is ignored in temporal cognition research.

Keywords:  conceptualization of time, temporal concepts, cognitive model, conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, corporeal (body) axis, loco(motion)

Pages:  105-108

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