Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English

ISBN-13: 9783631658680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 136 str.

Maciej Litwin

Opis

Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotle s epistemology builds on the conceptualisation of a subject manipulating objects in the visual field. Saint Augustine and Plotinus conceive of time and identity as real and contingent or figurative and necessary. William of Ockham builds on a simple conceptualisation of a time-point matrix as opposed to a duration matrix. British National Corpus findings relate to and comment on these expert philosophical conversations through the medium of cognitive models of -innovation- and -creation-, instruments of thought and reason in English."

Spis treści

Contents: Substantive identity - Process identity - Conceptualisation of the present - Concept elaboration - Counterfactuals - Time-point matrix - Duration matrix - Cognitive Model of the Present - Contingency and neccesity in causality - Innovation - Creation.

O autorze

Maciej Litwin is an assistant professor of English (linguistics/translation studies) at the University of Wroclaw. He previously worked as an executive for the City of Wroclaw, Poland, where he developed key ingredients of the municipal innovation portfolio (2006-2014).