Only ‘Time’ will ‘Tell’: Influence of temporality on the interpretation of narrative discourses

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Debmalya Biswas

PhD Research Scholar, Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. ORCID: 0000-0002-1543-6769. Email: debmal33_llh@jnu.ac.in, debmalyabiswas.professional@gmail.com

Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.34

Abstract

The notion of language has been broadly understood in different ways with respect to existing literatures revolving around form, meaning, sound & context. Although overtly these understandings do try to integrate with the functionality of a complex organic system, they glaringly lack reference to the basis for its realization, i.e., time. Approaches to problematize the understanding of language have overlooked the issue of time. Temporality introduces a distinct fuzziness in qualitative and abstract expressions beyond just the action or the state. It is also evident in the context of names in a diachronic sense. A systematic exploration of this gap can lead us to a time-oriented understanding of the faculty of language.

Keywords: temporality, space, time indexation, interpretation, discourse, language, part-of-speech categories.