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SPACE IMAGES AND SPATIAL SCHEMATA IN LANGUAGE

SPACE IMAGES AND SPATIAL SCHEMATA IN LANGUAGE


Author:  Kolesov I.Y.

Affiliation:  Altai State Pedagogical Academy

Abstract:  Spatial images together with temporal ones belong to archetypal representations contained in the linguistic mapping of the world produced in different cultures. They reflect human experience of cognizing space and finding bearings by people in the perceptible environs. The content matter of conceptual structures resulting from spatial representations can be found in a number of schemes and cognitive models represented in the language.

Keywords:  spatial images, actualizing of cognitive schemas in a language

References

Звегинцев В.А. Теоретическая и прикладная лингвистика. М.: Просвещение, 1967.

Pages:  151-153

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