Wany Sampaio
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wany Sampaio is involved.
Articles
2016 When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture Conceptualizations of Time, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 151–186 | Article
It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain
of time whose linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric
mapping from the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. We challenge
this assumption on the basis of our research on the Amondawa (Tupi… read more
2012 1. Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 15–35 | Article
We report an ethnographic and field-experiment-based study of time intervals in Amondawa, a Tupi language and culture of Amazonia. We analyse two Amondawa time interval systems based on natural environmental events (seasons and days), as well as the Amondawa system for categorising lifespan time… read more