Perceptualization and Conceptualization. Image Schemas and Their Metaphorical Extensions
Perceptualization and Conceptualization. Image Schemas and Their Metaphorical Extensions

Summary/Abstract: In cognitive linguistics, meaning is viewed as a cognitive phenomenon based on conventionalized conceptual structures. Our bodily experience of growing up,maturing and interacting in this world provides a basic conceptual framework. Thus, we form fundamental conceptual structures called image schemas which are then used to organize thought across a range of more abstract domains. Image schemas as basic patterns underlie superior cognitive structures, such as metaphors and metonymies. They provide the link between the external, concrete domains and the internal, abstract ones. Our paper focuses on the analysis of these pre-conceptual structures and their metaphorical extensions. These metaphorical extensions are relevant for the connection between perceptualization and conceptualization as main cognitive operations.

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