This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express

The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, t

This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swe

Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.

Presents David Foster Wallace critiques philosopher Richard Taylor's work implying that humans have no control over the future and includes essays linking Walla