Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

Everyday concepts of duration, of sequence, and of past, present, and future are
fundamental to how humans make sense of experience. In culture after culture, converging …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …

1.1 Abstract Concepts and Word Meanings: How to Define Them?.............................. 1 1.2
Abstraction and Abstractness......................... 3 1.2. 1 Abstractness and the Glue of …

Depictive expressions of thought predate written language by thousands of years. They
have evolved in communities through a kind of informal user testing that has refined them …

How do people think about time? Here we describe representations of time in Pormpuraaw,
a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Pormpuraawans' representations of time differ …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Across cultures people construct spatial representations of time. However, the particular
spatial layouts created to represent time may differ across cultures. This paper examines …

Time is a fundamental domain of experience. In this paper we ask whether aspects of
language and culture affect how people think about this domain. Specifically, we consider …