Image schemas and perception: Refining a definition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of contributors ix
4. Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics: Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Issues in image schema theory
6. The philosophical significance of image schemas 15
7. Image schemas and perception: Refining a definition 35
8. Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural grounding 57
9. Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive semantics 93
10. Part 2: Image schemas in mind and brain
11. The psychological status of image schemas 113
12. How to build a baby: III. Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought 137
13. Image schemata in the brain 165
14. Part 3: Image schemas in spatial cognition and language
15. The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language 199
16. Multimodal spatial representation: On the semantic unity of over 235
17. Part 4: Image schemas and beyond: Expanded and alternative notions
18. Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas 285
19. What´s in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language 313
20. Image schemas vs. "Complex Primitives" in cross-cultural spatial cognition 343
21. Part 5: New case studies on image schemas
22. Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT 369
23. Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia 395
24. Image schemas and gesture 421
25. Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect 443
26. Backmatter 475