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<html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="microsoft dhtml editing control"> <title></title> </head> <body> <P>The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made <EM>image schema </EM>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.</P> <P>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.</P> <P><EM>From Perception to Meaning </EM>is the first

Author

Hampe, Beate; Grady, Joseph E.

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110183115