image schema linguistics

An image schema is considered an embodied prelinguistic structure of experience that motivates conceptual metaphor mappings.

One of the main types of evidence for the existence of image schemata via linguistic research entails inferential generalizations. Conceptual metaphors and ...

An image schema is a mental pattern that. recurrently provides structured understanding of various experiences, and; is available for use in metaphor as a ...

av T Oakley · 2010 · Citerat av 462 — Briefly, an image schema is a condensed redescription of perceptual experience for the purpose of mapping spatial structure onto conceptual structure. According ...

av TC CLAUSNER · 1999 · Citerat av 832 — This article is about the theoretical status of a fifth theoretical con- struct of cognitive linguistics, the image schema. Image schemas, roughly, are ...

Abstract—Cognitive Linguistics holds a view that linguistics forms are usage-based and motivation-based, especially on humans' embodied conceptualizations.

av MM Hedblom · 2025 · Citerat av 13 — Image schemas are mental patterns learned from perceptual experiences capturing conceptual constructions in expressions. In linguistic analysis, ...

7 aug. 2025 — Image schemas are simple spatial stories built from them, and schematic integrations use the first two types to build concepts that include non-spatial ...

Image schemas are concepts characterised in the sensory-motor system. They are supposed the right form to characterise the source domain of conceptual metaphors ...

av OID Velasco · 2002 · Citerat av 97 — This image-schema is employed whenever a part of an entity is used to stand for the whole entity (e.g. (3)) or vice versa. (e.g. She is learning to tie her ...