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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions
Intertwining networks
A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 September 2022
Published online on 16 September 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of figures | pp. ix–x
- List of tables | pp. xi–12
- Preface | pp. xiii–xiv
- Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–14
- Chapter 2. Prepositions in the subject literature | pp. 15–40
- Chapter 3. Construal of spatial scenes and meaning construction | pp. 41–48
- Chapter 4. Prepositions to, zu, do, and к as conceptual categories | pp. 49–54
- Chapter 5. Image schema, metonymy and metaphor | pp. 55–64
- Chapter 6. Method of analysis | pp. 65–72
- Chapter 7. The characteristics of the established prepositional senses | pp. 73–184
- Chapter 8. Discussion of results | pp. 185–222
- Chapter 9. Conclusions | pp. 223–228
- Bibliography | pp. 229–240
- Index | pp. 241–242
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