Image-Schematic Bases of Meaning
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According to a new program known as "Cognitive Semantics," there exists an intimat erelation between perception and meaning. The allegedly " higher" cognitive functions thatconstruct meaning and make reasoning possible are continuous with and inseparable from oursensorimotor activities . I explore the nature of an "image schema" as the basic imaginativestructure that connects our embodied experience with our understanding of abstract domains andacts of inference . This account indicates the ways in which standard objectivist theories o fmeaning, knowledge, and rationality fail to capture crucial dimensions of our cognitive experience .
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تاریخ انتشار 2005