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What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The chapter defines mimetic schemas as dynamic, concrete and preverbal representations, involving the body image, which are accessible to consciousness, and pre-reflectively shared in a community. Mimetic schemas derive from a uniquely human capacity for bodily mimesis (Donald 1991; Zlatev, Persson and Gardenfors 2005) and are argued to play a key role in language acquisition, language evolution and the linking of phenomenal experience and shared meaning. In this sense they are suggested to provide a "grounding" of language which is more adequate than that of image schemas. By comparing the two concepts along six different dimensions: representation, accessibility to consciousness, level of abstractness, dynamicity, sensory modality and (inter) subjectivity the term "image schema" is shown to be highly polysemous, which is problematic for a concept that purports to be foundational within Cognitive Linguistics.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

313-342

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

From Perception To Meaning: Image Schemas In Cognitive Linguistics

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

De Gruyter

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • bodily mimesis
  • consciousness
  • "grounding"
  • intersubjectivity
  • mimetic schemas
  • representation
  • language acquisition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-3-11-019753-2