The modern cognitive view of metaphor, opposed to its traditional understanding as a literary device, suggests that abstract concepts, time including, are largely metaphorical. In view of their being a product of not only universal embodiment, but also a certain language / culture specific environment, the cognitive perspective raises the question of their linguistic relativity at the levels of ordinary as well as philosophical discourse.
time; conceptual metaphor; linguistic relativity; metaphysics of time
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