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From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Beate Hampe
Mouton de Gruyter
From Perception to Meaning
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Cognitive Linguistics Research 29
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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From perception to meaning : image schemas in cognitive linguistics / edited by Beate Hampe in cooperation with Joseph E. Grady. p. cm. ⫺ (Cognitive linguistics research ; 29) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-3-11-018311-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 3-11-018311-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Cognitive grammar. 2. Imagery (Psychology) 3. Perception. I. Hampe, Beate, 1968⫺ II. Grady, Joseph E. III. Series. P165.F76 2005 415⫺dc22 2005031038
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Preface and acknowledgements
In June 2004, an image schema workshop þ unrelated to the project of this edition, but accidentally coinciding with its first deadline for chapter submission þ was announced on the ýCogLingü mailing list as a satellite event to ýLanguage, Culture and Mindü (Portsmouth, July 2004). This announcement immediately kindled an intense, even fiery, debate, which made it 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 Linguistics had so far not achieved. 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 in image schema theory, ýFrom Perception to Meaningü unites a comprehensive range of original papers by renowned scholars þ many of whom have shaped image schema theory from the very beginning. Rather than trying to resolve all currently existing tensions into a completely unified notion, however, this collection is intended to document the innovations as well as inconsistencies that have accumulated over the past two decades, to take stock of both the question marks that accompany them, and the great promise they hold for advancing the entire field. As Part I of this edition surveys image schema theory in great detail from a range of different angles, and as most authors in the other sections individually 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 contribution