EAN: 9783110183115

FROM PERCEPTION TO MEANING GEBUNDEN

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.

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