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| Title | What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language |
| Author/s | Jordan Zlatev |
| Department/s |
Linguistics and Phonetics
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783... Restricted Access (Alternative Location) |
| Publication/Series | From Perception To Meaning: Image Schemas In Cognitive Linguistics |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| Pages | 313 - 342 |
| Document type | Book chapter |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter De Gruyter & Co |
| Status | published |
| Abstract 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. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
| Keywords | consciousness, bodily mimesis, "grounding", intersubjectivity, mimetic schemas, representation, language acquisition |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISBN: 978-3-11-019753-2 |
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