From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2005

From Perception to Meaning

Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by: Beate Hampe
In collaboration with: Joseph E. Grady

Volume 29 in the series Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197532

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Beate Hampe is Assistant Professor at the English Department of the Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.

Joseph E. Grady has left university and works for a company called Cultural Logic which specializes in applied cognitive linguistics/anthropology in Washington, DC, USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: Introduction Beate Hampe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Issues in image schema theory
The philosophical significance of image schemas Mark Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Image schemas and perception: Refining a definition Joseph E. Grady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural grounding Ellen Dodge and George Lakoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive semantics Timothy C. Clausner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Part 2: Image schemas in mind and brain
The psychological status of image schemas Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
How to build a baby: III. Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought Jean M. Mandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Image schemata in the brain Tim Rohrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Part 3: Image schemas in spatial cognition and language
The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language Leonard Talmy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Multimodal spatial representation: On the semantic unity of over Paul Deane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Part 4: Image schemas and beyond: Expanded and alternative notions
Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas Michael Kimmel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
What´s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language Jordan Zlatev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Image schemas vs. "Complex Primitives" in cross-cultural spatial cognition Margarita Correa-Beningfield, Gitte Kristiansen, Ignasi Navarro-Ferrando and Claude Vandeloise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Part 5: New case studies on image schemas
Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT Robert Dewell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia Yanna Popova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Image schemas and gesture Alan Cienki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect Todd Oakley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists of a Cognitive Orientation; Philosophers, Psychologists and Anthropologists Interested in Language; Anyone Studying the Embodied Mind; Academic Institutes; Libraries.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 485
Keywords: Psycholinguistics; Cognition

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197532

Hardcover

Published: December 15, 2005
ISBN: 9783110183115