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Article
The Significance of Image Schema in Embodied Cognition
Author(s)
Dan Guo, Huili Wang
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2018.08.002
Affiliation(s)
Dalian University of Technology
ABSTRACT
As
a recurring pattern of sensory-motor-affective experience, image schema is not
only a concept discussed in linguistics and psychology, but also a significant
one in the study of embodied cognition. Through analyzing the features of image
schema considered by the authors as embodiment, recessiveness, sedimentation,
logicality, scientificity, and dependency to cognitive metaphors and reviewing
the definition of embodied cognition, the paper argues that image schema is an
integration of bodily property and mental property, and accordingly a core and
inseparable concept of embodied cognition by bridging body and mind. Image
schema can help to explain how abstraction and inference generate from
body-environment interactions, thus making the theory of embodied cognition
more persuasive and reliable.
KEYWORDS
image schema, embodied cognition, significance, body, mind
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