Every now and then, one comes across an academic journal article that is of little relevance to one's field, but which is quite intriguing and interesting nevertheless. I'll be honest, I have not read all fifty pages of "With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time…
This is Travis's interesting reflection on the concepts of past and future from a multilingual point of view. Makes me reflect on the spatial-temporal location of tradition... when did tradition cease to be the future in the Western world?
