Hampe From Perception to Meaning

Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019753-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 496 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made 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.

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.

Zielgruppe

Linguists of a Cognitive Orientation; Philosophers, Psychologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hampe, Beate

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grady, Joseph E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Beate Hampe is Assistant Professor at the English Department of the Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany. Joseph E. Grady has left university and works for a company called Cultural Logic which specializes in applied cognitive linguistics/anthropology in Washington, DC, USA.