An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories

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  • Werner Kuhn
چکیده

How we categorize certain objects depends on the processes they afford: something is a vehicle because it affords transportation, a house because it offers shelter or a watercourse because water can flow in it. The hypothesis explored here is that image schemas (such as LINK, CONTAINER, SUPPORT, and PATH) capture the necessary abstractions to model affordances for spatio-temporal processes. To test the idea, I develop an algebraic theory formalizing image schemas and accounting for the role of affordances in categorizing spatial entities.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007