From Perception to Meaning
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From Perception to Meaning

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From Perception to Meaning

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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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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
ISBN
9783110197532
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of contents
  3. List of contributors
  4. Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: Introduction
  5. The philosophical significance of image schemas
  6. Image schemas and perception: Refining a definition
  7. Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural grounding
  8. Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive semantics
  9. The psychological status of image schemas
  10. How to build a baby: III. Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought
  11. Image schemata in the brain
  12. The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language
  13. Multimodal spatial representation: On the semantic unity of over
  14. Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas
  15. What´s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language
  16. Image schemas vs. "Complex Primitives" in cross-cultural spatial cognition
  17. Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT
  18. Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia
  19. Image schemas and gesture
  20. Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect
  21. Backmatter