Chapter 4 Image Schemas and Concept Invention

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria M. Hedblom ◽  
Oliver Kutz ◽  
Fabian Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
Image Schemas

A Christmas Carol: Disability Conceptualised through Empathy and the Philosophy of ‘Technologically Useful Bodies’

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Ester Vidović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The article explores how two cultural models which were dominant in Great Britain during the Victorian era – the model based on the philosophy of ‘technologically useful bodies’ and the Christian model of empathy – were connected with the understanding of disability. Both cultural models are metaphorically constituted and based on the ‘container’ and ‘up and down’ image schemas respectively. 1 The intersubjective character of cultural models is foregrounded, in particular, in the context of conceiving of abstract concepts such as emotions and attitudes. The issue of disability is addressed from a cognitive linguistic approach to literary analysis while studying the reflections of the two cultural models on the portrayal of the main characters of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The studied cultural models appeared to be relatively stable, while their evaluative aspects proved to be subject to historical change. The article provides incentives for further study which could include research on the connectedness between, on one hand, empathy with fictional characters roused by reading Dickens's works and influenced by cultural models dominant during the Victorian period in Britain and, on the other hand, the contemporaries’ actual actions taken to ameliorate the social position of the disabled in Victorian Britain.

Image Schemas in Romantic Poetry

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (Special Issue No. 1) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Abbas Fadhil Lutfi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Image Schemas ◽  
Romantic Poetry

LGIST: Learning Generalized Image Schemas for Transfer

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Cohen ◽  
Carole Beal
Keyword(s):  
Image Schemas

The semantics of German posture and placement verbs in noun-verb phrases

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Manon Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Standing Position ◽  
Sitting Position ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Verb Phrases ◽  
Preliminary Study

Abstract In this contribution, we study the use of the German verbs stehen (‘to stand’), sitzen (‘to sit’) and their causative equivalents stellen (‘to put in a standing position’) and setzen (‘to put in a sitting position’) in noun-verb phrases, such as an der Spitze stehen (lit. ‘to stand at the top’ = ‘to be at the top’) or auf die Beine stellen (lit. ‘to put upright on the legs’ = ‘to achieve’). Among these phrases we are looking more particularly at the subcategory of complex noun-verb phrases which are commonly referred to as Funktionsverbgefüge in German. Numerous examples from the corpus DeReKo (IDS) are analyzed with the aim of identifying the conceptualizations and image schemas that motivate their use. This preliminary study shows that, even if these verbs seem very close at first sight, their use is highly differentiated.

Onomatopoeias: a new perspective around space, image schemas and phoneme clusters

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (S1) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Catricalà ◽  
Annarita Guidi
Keyword(s):  
Image Schemas ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Space Image

scholarly journals The Path to Neutralization: Image Schemas and Prefixed Motion Verbs

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Nesset
Keyword(s):  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Principled Explanation ◽  
Image Schema

This paper investigates the path image schema in Russian motion verbs. It is argued that this image schema provides a principled explanation why Russian has a contrast between unidirectional and non-directional unprefixed motion verbs, but no such contrast for prefixed verbs.

scholarly journals Image schemas, mimetic schemas and children's gestures

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Natural Interaction ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Third Person ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
The One

Abstract Mimetic schemas, unlike the popular cognitive linguistic notion of image schemas, have been characterized in earlier work as explicitly representational, bodily structures arising from imitation of culture-specific practical actions (Zlatev 2005, 2007a, 2007b). We performed an analysis of the gestures of three Swedish and three Thai children at the age of 18, 22 and 26 months in episodes of natural interaction with caregivers and siblings in order to analyze the hypothesis that iconic gestures emerge as mimetic schemas. In accordance with this hypothesis, we predicted that the children's first iconic gestures would be (a) intermediately specific, (b) culture-typical, (c) falling in a set of recurrent types, (d) predominantly enacted from a first-person perspective (1pp) rather than performed from a third-person perspective (3pp), with (e) 3pp gestures being more dependent on direct imitation than 1pp gestures and (f) more often co-occurring with speech. All specific predictions but the last were confirmed, and differences were found between the children's iconic gestures on the one side and their deictic and emblematic gestures on the other. Thus, the study both confirms earlier conjectures that mimetic schemas “ground” both gesture and speech and implies the need to qualify these proposals, limiting the link between mimetic schemas and gestures to the iconic category.

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