What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language
(2005) p.313-342- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- Zlatev, Jordan LU
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- 2005
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- bodily mimesis, consciousness, "grounding", intersubjectivity, mimetic schemas, representation, language acquisition
- host publication
- From Perception To Meaning: Image Schemas In Cognitive Linguistics
- pages
- 313 - 342
- publisher
- De Gruyter
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- wos:000277943100013
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-019753-2
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783110197532
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- English
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abstract = {{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.}},
author = {{Zlatev, Jordan}},
booktitle = {{From Perception To Meaning: Image Schemas In Cognitive Linguistics}},
isbn = {{978-3-11-019753-2}},
keywords = {{bodily mimesis; consciousness; "grounding"; intersubjectivity; mimetic schemas; representation; language acquisition}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{313--342}},
publisher = {{De Gruyter}},
title = {{What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197532}},
doi = {{10.1515/9783110197532}},
year = {{2005}},
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