Chronotope

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~time as metaphor of being~

…the chronotope is ‘a unit of analysis for studying language according to the ratio and characteristics of the temporal and spatial categories represented in that language’. Specific chronotopes are said to correspond to particular genres, or relatively stable ways of speaking, which themselves represent particular worldviews or ideologies. To this extent, a chronotope is both a cognitive concept and a narrative feature of language…