Time and Space in Tzeltal: Is the future uphill?
Linguistic expressions of time very often draw on spatial language, prompting one to wonder whether cultural specificity in spatial language and cognition is reflected in thinking about time. In the Mayan language Tzeltal, spatial language relies heavily on an absolute frame of reference utilizing t...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00212/full |