From perception to meaning : image schemas in cognitive linguistics

500 Pages·2005·3.496 MB·English

by  Beate Hampe, Joseph E Grady

From Perception to Meaning

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Cognitive Linguistics Research
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Editors
Rene´ Dirven
Ronald W. Langacker
John R.Taylor

Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
From Perception to Meaning
Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by
Beate Hampe
In cooperation with
Joseph E. Grady

Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
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Preface and acknowledgements
In June 2004, an image schema workshop þ unrelated to the project of this
edition,but accidentally coincidingwithitsfirstdeadlineforchaptersubmis-
sion þ was announced on the ýCogLingü mailing list as a satellite event to
ýLanguage, Culture and Mindü (Portsmouth, July 2004). This announce-
ment immediately kindled an intense, even fiery, debate, whichmadeit plain
that the notion of image schema is so central to the Cognitive-Linguistics
enterprise that the possibility of an embodied and experiential view of
linguistic meaning may to a considerable extent hinge on an adequate and
generally accepted understanding of this notion. Less conveniently, this
internet exchange also reflected that the latter is exactly what Cognitive
Linguisticshadsofarnotachieved.
In order to give a broader audience in Cognitive Linguistics and its
neighbouring disciplines in the social and cognitive sciences access to the
current state-of-the-art inimageschematheory, ýFrom Perception toMean-
ingüunitesa comprehensiverangeoforiginalpapersbyrenownedscholarsþ
many of whom have shaped image schema theory from the very beginning.
Rather than trying to resolveall currently existingtensionsintoa completely
unified notion, however, this collection is intended to document the innova-
tions as well as inconsistencies that have accumulated over the past two
decades, to take stock of both the question marks that accompany them,and
thegreatpromisetheyholdforadvancingtheentirefield.
AsPart I ofthis editionsurveys imageschematheoryingreatdetailfrom
a range of different angles, and as most authors in the other sections indi-
vidually do so, too, the editorÿs introductory chapter will be restricted to a
slim outline of the original conception as well as some of the major issues
that have driven image schema research to date, and also shaped the contri-
butions to this volume. In addition, all authors have provided summary ab-
stractsoftheirchapters.
ýFrom Percep tion to Meaningü is theresult ofthesustainedcommitment
and joint hard work of a whole group of scholars. Without their outstanding
sense of community and cooperation, this interdisciplinary edition could
never have been assembled. The collection þ for the most part made up of
original papers elicited for the sole purpose of creating this book þ brings
together a range of divergent perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics and
such neighbouring disciplines as anthropology, psychology, and the neuro-
vi Preface and acknowledgements
sciences. Two chapters are continuations of pertinent earlier research on
spatial cognition and language (Talmy, this volume; Deane, this volume);
the four chapters that originate in pertinent conference talks delivered at,
e.g., theý7thInternational CognitiveLinguistics Conferenceü,Santa Barbara
2001 (Grady, this volume; Popova, this volume), or the ýPortsmouth Image
Schema Workshopü (Zlatev, this volume; Beningfield et al., this volume),
present much elaborated and updated versions of the respective earlier pres-
entations. I thus wishto thank thecontributors to this CLR volumeforallof
their patience and the efforts they have invested, which have ultimately
turned their individual essays into the tightly connected chapters of a book
projectbelongingtoallofus.
I am also deeply grateful to thefollowingcolleaguesfroma range ofdis-
ciplines, all of whom agreed to act as anonymous reviewers of the chapter
drafts and thus provided the authors and myself with their invaluable feed-
back and support: Benjamin Bergen, Geert Brône, Alan Cienki, Timothy
Clausner, Herbert Colston, Seana Coulson, William Croft, Robert Dewell,
René Dirven, Kurt Feyarts, Vittorio Galese, Dirk Geeraerts, Raymond
Gibbs, Stefan Th. Gries, Ronald Langacker, Cornelia Müller, Gary
Palmer, Naomi Quinn, Doris Schönefeld, Augusto Soares da Silva, Chris
Sinha,SarahTaub,MichaelTomasello,andClaudeVandeloise.
I would further like to thank the series editors of CLR, especially René
Dirven, for their generous and unwavering support fromtheverybeginning.
Many thanks for a very fruitful period of cooperation also go to Birgit
Sieverts and Monika Wendland at Mouton, as well as to Antje Lahne, my
studentassistantinthefinaleditingphase.
Lastly, but by no means least of all, I wish to thank Joseph Grady for
joining me on this arduous journey. Without his initial encouragement, this
project would probably never have got off the ground in the first place. Nor
would I, without his continuous enthusiasm and feedback, have found the
staminatoseethisbookallthewaythroughtoitsfinalcompletion.
BeateHampe, Friedrich-Schiller-UniversitätJena,September2005
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements v
List of contributors ix
Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: Introduction 1
Beate Hampe
Part 1: Issues in image schema theory
The philosophical signifi cance of image schemas 15
Mark Johnson
Image schemas and perception: Refi ning a defi nition 35
Joseph E. Grady
Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural grounding 57
Ellen Dodge and George Lakoff
Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive semantics 93
Timothy C. Clausner
Part 2: Image schemas in mind and brain
The psychological status of image schemas 113
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
How to build a baby: III. 137
Image schemas an d the transition to verbal thought
Jean M. Mandler
Image schemata in the brain 165
Tim Rohrer
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Part 3: Image schemas in spatial cognition and language
The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language 199
Leonard Talmy
Multimodal spatial representation: On the semantic unity of over 235
Paul Deane
Part 4: Image schemas and beyond: Expanded and alternative notions
Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas 285
Michael Kimmel
What’s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language 313
Jordan Zlatev
Image schemas vs. Complex Primitives in cross-cultural spatial 343
cognition
Margarita Correa-Beningfi eld, Gitte Kristiansen,
Ignasi Navarro-Ferrando, and Claude Vandeloise
Part 5: New case studies on image schemas
Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT 369
Robert Dewell
Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia 395
Yanna Popova
Image schemas and gesture 421
Alan Cienki
Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect 443
Todd Oakley
Author index 475
Subject index 479
List of contributors
AlanJ.Cienki
The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Program in Linguistics,
EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,GA
e-mail:[email protected]
TimothyC.Clausner
HRLLaboratories,LLC,Malibu,CA
e-mail:[email protected]
MargaritaCorrea-Beningfield
DepartamentodeFilologíaInglesaI,
UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
PaulD.Deane
EducationalTestingService.Princeton,NJ
e-mail:[email protected]
RobertB.Dewell
DepartmentofModernForeignLanguagesandLiteratures,
LoyolaUniversityNewOrleans,Alexandria,LA
e-mail:[email protected]
EllenDodge
LinguisticsDepartment,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,CA
e-mail:[email protected]
RaymondW.Gibbs,Jr.
DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,CA
e-mail:[email protected]
JosephE.Grady

CulturalLogics,Providence,RI
e-mail:[email protected]
BeateHampe
InstituteofEnglishandAmericanStudies,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität,Jena,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
x List of contributors
MarkJohnson
DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofOregon,Eugene,OR
e-mail:[email protected]
MichaelKimmel
InstitutfürEuropäischeIntegrationsforschung(EIF)
ÖsterreichischeAkademiederWissenschaften(ÖAW),Wien,Österreich
e-mail:[email protected]
GitteKristiansen
DepartmentofEnglishLanguageandLinguistics,
UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Madrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
GeorgeLakoff
DepartmentsofLinguisticsandCognitiveSciences,
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
e-mail:[email protected]
JeanM.Mandler
DepartmentofCognitiveScience,UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego,CA,
andUniversityCollegeLondon
e-mail:[email protected]
IgnasiNavarro-Ferrando
DepartamentdÿEstudisAnglesos,UniversitatJaumeI,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
ToddOakley
DepartmentsofEnglishandCognitiveScience
CaseWesternReserveUniversity,Cleveland,OH
Email:[email protected]
YannaPopova
UniversityofOxford,HertfordCollege,Oxford,U.K.
e-mail:[email protected]

TimRohrer
ColoradoAdvancedResearchInstitute,Boulder,CO
e-mail:[email protected]