Time, being and becoming : cognitive models of innovation and creation in English.

135 S. : graph. Darst. ; 22 cm, 290 g Neuwertig. - Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Summary and Overview 1 -- i. Argument summary. 1 -- iL Argument overview 1 -- Part A. Theoretical Prerequisites -- Chapter 1. Formal solutions of identity: the substantive identity. -- 1.1 Chapter overview -- 1.2 Linguistics in the age of science -- 1.3 Formal identity: objects of mathematics -- 1.4 Network identity: objects of human conceptualisation -- 1.5 Identity as a human-scale concept -- 1.6 Chapter summary -- Chapter 2. Non-formal solutions of identity: identity as process -- 2.1 Chapter overview -- 2.2 The nominalist tradition: contingent existence -- 2.3 Ontological contingency as a feature of counterfectual thought -- 2.4 Plato's idea: entity or process? -- 2.5 Identity as item in inventory and blended concept -- 2.6 Chapter summary -- Chapter 3. Identity and the present. Towards a -- cognitive model of the present 45 -- 3.1 Chapter overview 45 -- 3.2 Aristotle: reason, induction and deduction 45 -- 3.3 Plotinus and Saint Augustine: knowledge and morality 51 -- 3.4 Vox and eidos: time-point matrix and duration-matrix 64 -- 3.5 Chapter summary 67 -- Part B. Descriptive Applications -- Chapter 4. 'Innovation' and'creation' within the -- Cognitive Model of the Present 73 -- 4.1 Chapter overview 73 -- 4.2 The Cognitive Model of the Present by Vyvyan Evans 74 -- 4.3 Introducing the corpus study of 'innovation' and 'creation' 77 -- 4.4 Survey of British National Corpus 2007 78 -- 4.4.1 Processes and things 78 -- 4.4.2 Verb forms 79 -- 4.4.3 Nominal forms 81 -- Statement (1) 82 -- 4.4.4 Nominals and verbs: distributive proportion 82 -- Statement (2) 83 -- Statement (3) 83 -- 4.5 Dictionary entries of 'create' and 'innovate' word families 83 -- Statement (4) 83 -- Statement (5) 84 -- 4.6 Two working hypotheses 84 -- 4.7 Analysis of 'innovation' and 'creation' as concepts 85 -- 4.7.1 Causality and temporality: BNC samples 86 -- 4.7.2 Speculating about the limit options in the conceptualisation process 87 -- 4.8 Verifying the configurationality hypothesis 89 -- 4.8.1 Configurationality and counterfactuality 90 -- 4.8.2 Conceptual blending account of 'innovation' -- and creation' concepts 91 -- 4.9 Chapter Summary 92 ISBN 9783631658680

Englisch ; Kognitive Linguistik, Englisch