From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 29)

Cover
Preface and acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of contributors
Image schemas in Cognitive Linguistics - Introduction
Part 1: Issues in image schema theory
	The philosophical significance of image schemas
	Image schemas and perception: Refining a definition
	Image schemas: From linguistic analysis to neural grounding
	Image schema paradoxes: Implications for cognitive semantics
Part 2: Image schemas in mind and brain
	The psychological status of image schemas
	How to build a baby: III.Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought
	Image schemata in the brain
Part 3: Image schemas in spatial cognition and language
	The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language
	Multimodal spatial representation:  On the semantic unity of over
Part 4: Image schemas and beyond: Expanded and alternative notions
	Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas
	Whatÿs in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language
	Image schemas vs. ÿComplex Primitives  in cross-cultural spatial cognition
Part 5: New case studies on image schemas
	Dynamic patterns of CONTAINMENT
	Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia
	Image schemas and gesture
	Force-dynamic dimensions of rhetorical effect
Author Index
Subject index