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Event-based time in...
Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture
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- da Silva Sinha, Vera (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
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- Sinha, Chris (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
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Wany, Sampaio (author)
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Joerg, Zinken (author)
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Filipović, Luna (editor)
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Jaszczolt, Kasia M. (editor)
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- 2012
- 2012
- English.
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In: Space and Time in Languages and Cultures Language, Culture, and Cognition. ; , s. 15-35
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- We report an ethnographic and field-experiment-based study of time intervals in Amondawa, a Tupi language and culture of Amazonia. We analyse two Amondawa time interval systems based on natural environmental events (seasons and days), as well as the Amondawa system for categorising lifespan time (“age”). Amondawa time intervals are exclusively event-based, as opposed to time-based (i.e. they are based on event-duration, rather than measured abstract time units). Amondawa has no lexicalised abstract concept of time and no practices of time reckoning, as conventionally understood in the anthropological literature. Our findings indicate that not only are time interval systems and categories linguistically and culturally specific, but that they do not depend upon a universal “concept of time”. We conclude that the abstract conceptual domain of time is not a human cognitive universal, but a cultural historical construction, semiotically mediated by symbolic and cultural-cognitive artefacts for time reckoning.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- semiotic mediation
- artefacts
- Amazonia
- time reckoning
- onomastics
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- vet (subject category)
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