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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 417-432 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Review of Cognitive Linguistics |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Image schemas and mimetic schemas in cognitive linguistics and gesture studies. / Cienki, A.J.
In: Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2013, p. 417-432.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Image schemas and mimetic schemas in cognitive linguistics and gesture studies
AU - Cienki, A.J.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in cognitive linguistics on embodied experience as a fundamental basis for language structure and meaning, the employment of image schemas in the analysis of gesture with speech is a logical extension. However, given their level of abstraction, to what degree do image schemas provide a useful explanatory tool for researching the concrete, physically embodied details of gestures? This article considers the answer to this question and then turns to a more recent theoretical development that complements the picture by encompassing a different realm of cognitive and linguistic phenomena. This research, on 'mimetic schemas', is shown to have great potential for thinking about some known phenomena of gesture in a new way. Schema research on these different levels thus provides a useful means to analyze behavior in another modality involved in spoken language use, namely the visual. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
AB - Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in cognitive linguistics on embodied experience as a fundamental basis for language structure and meaning, the employment of image schemas in the analysis of gesture with speech is a logical extension. However, given their level of abstraction, to what degree do image schemas provide a useful explanatory tool for researching the concrete, physically embodied details of gestures? This article considers the answer to this question and then turns to a more recent theoretical development that complements the picture by encompassing a different realm of cognitive and linguistic phenomena. This research, on 'mimetic schemas', is shown to have great potential for thinking about some known phenomena of gesture in a new way. Schema research on these different levels thus provides a useful means to analyze behavior in another modality involved in spoken language use, namely the visual. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
U2 - 10.1075/rcl.11.2.13cie
DO - 10.1075/rcl.11.2.13cie
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 417
EP - 432
JO - Review of Cognitive Linguistics
JF - Review of Cognitive Linguistics
SN - 1877-9751
IS - 2
ER -