From Perception to Meaning : : Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics / / ed. by Beate Hampe.

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• MitwirkendeR: Cienki, Alan,; Clausner, Timothy C.,; Correa-Beningfield, Margarita,; Deane, Paul,; Dewell, Robert,; Dodge, Ellen,; Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.,; Grady, Joseph E.,; Hampe, Beate,; Johnson, Mark,; Kimmel, Michael,; Kristiansen, Gitte,; Lakoff, George,; Mandler, Jean M.,; Navarro-Ferrando, Ignasi,; Oakley, Todd,; Popova, Yanna,; Rohrer, Tim,; Talmy, Leonard,; Vandeloise, Claude,; Zlatev, Jordan,
• HerausgeberIn: Hampe, Beate,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (485 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: -- Introduction -- Part 1: Issues in image schema theory -- The philosophical significance of image -- schemas -- Image schemas and perception: Refining a -- definition -- Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural -- grounding -- Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive -- semantics -- Part 2: Image schemas in mind and brain -- The psychological status of image schemas -- How to build a baby: III. Image schemas and the -- transition to verbal thought -- Image schemata in the brain -- Part 3: Image schemas in spatial cognition and -- language -- The fundamental system of spatial schemas in -- language -- Multimodal spatial representation: On the semantic -- unity of over -- Part 4: Image schemas and beyond: Expanded and -- alternative notions -- Culture regained: Situated and compound image -- schemas -- What´s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the -- grounding of language -- Image schemas vs. "Complex Primitives" in -- cross-cultural spatial cognition -- Part 5: New case studies on image schemas -- Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT -- Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia -- Image schemas and gesture -- Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical -- effect -- Backmatter