TY - BOOK ID - 18191558 TI - From perception to meaning : image schemas in cognitive linguistics AU - Hampe, Beate AU - Grady, Joseph E. PY - 2005 VL - 29 SN - 18614132 SN - 9783110183115 3110183110 9786613396549 1283396548 3110197537 9783110197532 9781283396547 6613396540 PB - Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Imagery (Psychology). KW - Perception. KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Grammar KW - #KVHA:Cognitieve linguistiek KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Supraliminal perception KW - Imagery, Mental KW - Images, Mental KW - Mental imagery KW - Mental images KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Cognition KW - Apperception KW - Senses and sensation KW - Thought and thinking KW - Imagination KW - Visualization KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Perception KW - Cognition. KW - Psycholinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18191558 AB - 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. ER -