From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive LinguisticsBeate Hampe The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made image schema one of the cornerstone concepts of the emerging experientialist paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, a framework founded upon the rejection of the mind-body dichotomy and stressing the fundamentally embodied nature of meaning, imagination and reason - hence language. Conceived of as the pre-linguistic, dynamic and highly schematic gestalts arising directly from motor movement, object manipulation, and perceptual interaction, image schemas served to anchor abstract reasoning and imagination to sensori-motor patterns in the conceptual theory of metaphor. Being itself informed by preceding crosslinguistic work on semantic primitives in the linguistic representations of spatial relations (carried out by L. Talmy, R. Langacker, and others), the notion has inspired a large amount of subsequent research and debate on diverse issues ranging from the meaning, structure and acquisition of natural languages to the embodied mind itself. From Perception to Meaning is the first survey of current image-schema theory and offers a collection of original and innovative essays by leading scholars, many of whom have shaped the theory from the very beginning. The edition unites essays on major issues in recent research on image-schemas - from aspects of their definition and linguistic formalization, their psychological status and neural grounding to their role as semantic universals and primitives in language acquisition. The book will thus not only be welcomed by linguists of a cognitive orientation, but will prove relevant to philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists interested in language, and indeed to anyone studying the embodied mind. |
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... understanding of this notion . Less conveniently , this internet exchange also reflected that the latter is exactly what Cognitive Linguistics had so far not achieved . ― In order to give a broader audience in Cognitive Linguistics and ...
... understanding and thought ” . The chapters in PART 2 ( IMAGE SCHEMAS IN MIND AND BRAIN ) bring to- gether much of the psychological and neurological evidence currently available for image schemas as structures between perception and ...
... understanding of the embodied roots of cognition and language . References Bowerman , Melissa 1996a The origins of children's spatial semantic categories : Cognitive versus linguistic determinants . In Rethinking Linguistic Relativ- ity ...
... understanding . To the extent that these accounts remain ex- clusively structural , they are bound to leave out significant dimensions of human meaning . Keywords : embodied mind , meaning , metaphor , imagination , reasoning 1. The ...
... understanding and knowing . Our sensory - motor capacities must be recruited for abstract thinking . If you approach this problem at the level of concepts , then you want to know where conceptual structure comes from for both concrete ...
Contents
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Implications for cognitive semantics | 93 |
The psychological status of image schemas | 113 |
III Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought | 137 |
Image schemata in the brain | 165 |
Situated and compound image schemas | 285 |
What ́s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language | 313 |
Image schemas vs Complex Primitives in crosscultural spatial cognition | 343 |
Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT | 369 |
Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia | 395 |
Image schemas and gesture | 421 |
Forcedynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect | 443 |
Backmatter | 475 |
The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language | 199 |
On the semantic unity of over | 235 |
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