What is it about?
How do we understand something as abstract as time? This review looks at a book that explores how we use spatial concepts such as direction, distance, and movement to think and talk about time. You may find yourself starting with time, metaphor, and language, but ultimately gain far more than that.
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Why is it important?
The way we understand time shapes how we communicate, organize our experiences, and make sense of the world. Exploring the relationship between time and space can also reveal interesting differences in how people across languages and cultures think about time.
Perspectives
Writing this book review was an enjoyable and rewarding experience. This review can help you understand the book’s main ideas and discover how space shapes the way we think and talk about time.
Bonnie Xinyue REN
City University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: Review of Duffy & Feist (2023): Time, Metaphor, and Language: A Cognitive Science Perspective, Metaphor and the Social World, August 2026, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/msw.26020.ren.
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