Image Schema

An Image Schema is a schema structure (within our cognitive processes) which establishes patterns of understanding and reasoning by ....

• See: Neuroscience, Cognition, Cognitive Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor, Embodied Cognition.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/image_schema Retrieved:2016-3-16.
  • An image schema is a recurring structure within our cognitive processes which establishes patterns of understanding and reasoning. Image schemas are formed from our bodily interactions, from linguistic experience, and from historical context. The term is explained in Mark Johnson's book The Body in the Mind, in case study 2 of George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things and by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking. In contemporary cognitive linguistics, an image schema is considered an embodied prelinguistic structure of experience that motivates conceptual metaphor mappings. Evidence for image schemata is drawn from a number of related disciplines, including work on cross-modal cognition in psychology, from spatial cognition in both linguistics and psychology, cognitive linguistics, and from neuroscience.

2005

• (Hampe, 2005) ⇒ Beate Hampe. (2005). “Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: Introduction.” In: From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics, 29

1987

• (Johnson, 1987)
  • QUOTE: An image schema is a recurring dynamic pattern of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that gives coherence and structure to experience. … ' Experience' ... is to be understood in a very rich broad sense as including basic perceptual, motor-program, emotional, historical, social and linguistic dimensions.

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