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From Perception to Meaning : Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics.
Title:
From Perception to Meaning : Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics.
Author:
Hampe, Beate.
ISBN:
9783110197532
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (485 pages)
Series:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; v.29

Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements -- 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 -- Author index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
Landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson in 1987 established image schemas among the cornerstone concepts of the emerging paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics. The pre-linguistic, dynamic and highly schematic gestalt patterns arising from motor movement, object manipulation, and perceptual interaction were posited as the cognitive anchors linking abstract reasoning and imagination to bodily experience. Ever since its introduction, the notion has inspired much research and debate on diverse issues from the meaning, structure and acquisition of natural languages to the embodied mind itself. From Perception to Meaning unites original papers by leading scholars outlining the current state-of-the-art in image-schema theory.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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