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从语言到思想：英语文学中时间观念探宄-- --英语文学论文 d English literature1 and ’’concepts of time”，have defined the scope of the present dissertation. Studyingthe concepts of time in any culture or civilization is no small task, yet for the conceptsof time in Old English literature, the task is even more challenging. This challenge ispartly due to the conceptual ambiguity in defining ’’Old English literature*. It isnecessary, before proceeding to the main business, for me to specify the contexts. First, I use tiie term literature’’ to iuse ’’OldEnglish literature” as a convenient category to cover different genres of Old Englishphasise the conversion context inAnglo-Saxon England. According to Bedes account in HE, in AD 592, the Romanpope Gregory sent Augustine to England en, I stress the plexity of time in theAnglo-Saxon context. Time is a plex concept any layers of meanings. Inthis dissertation, I only attempt to cover some aspects rather than all aspects of theplex meanings associated e.The issue of time has received only limited treatment from studies that usuallyfocus on other topics. In the three major bibliographical tools of Anglo-Saxon studies-A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972, theASE Bibliography, and the OEN Bibliography, time is only a sporadic topic, In thesection “Special Vocabulary and Semantic Field Studies? of A Bibliography ofPublications on Old English Literature to the End of 1912, only one entry is related totime/ The OEH Bibliography records 59 relevant entries from 1973 to 2006.8 The 83 entries ranging from 1971 to 2009 recorded in the ASE Bibliography overlap ber of literature available,the number of entries relevant to time only occupies a small percentage in theof determiningits divisions,，，and exami —ned ’’the Canonical Hours the basis of a detailed study of theAnglo- Saxon divisions of time...to shoeant to clerk andlayman., , u oreover， Tupper e are related to the foil range ofcognition in a cultuy andldentity The Conce