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Fecha de publicación: 19-jun-2014 12:43:06
My research with leading developmental psychologist Jean Mandler has been published in the press, including an explanatory video. Mi investigación con la figura internacional de la psicología cognitiva, Jean Mandler, se ha publicado en la prensa, con vídeo explicativo incluido.
In our recent article we propose that research on how conceptual development begins should differentiate between spatial primitives such as PATH or CONTAINER, image schemas, that is, small spatial stories such as PATH-GOAL or CONTAINMENT EVENTS, and schematic integrations, that is, blends of image schemas with bodily feelings or other non-spatial information, to conceptualize force, temporal relations, etc. We also suggest that early attentional preferences from the first months of development may influence the way schematic integrations structure sophisticated products of mature cognition, such as metaphors. MORE HERE
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The paper:
Mandler, J. & Pagán Cánovas, C. 2014.Ondefining image schemas. Language and Cognition 6:4. 510-532. © Cambridge University Press.
Mandler, J. & Pagán Cánovas, C. 2014.Ondefining image schemas. Language and Cognition 6:4. 510-532. © Cambridge University Press.
How does the human mind build the first concepts? The key to early processes of concept formation is spatial cognition. The newborn is ready to attend to motion events and other basic spatial relations, and to create what Lakoff, Johnson and others have termed image schemas, sets of organized spatial knowledge, which are then used as the basis for more complex conceptualizations. The other key is integration: How do infants integrate schemas with non-spatial information? When does this process begin? And crucially, to what extent do these early habits influence meaning construction later in life?
Jean Mandler and I propose three kinds of cognitive structure that have not been differentiated in the psychological and cognitive linguistic literatures. They are spatial primitives, image schemas, and schematic integrations. Spatial primitives are the first conceptual building blocks formed in infancy, image schemas are simple spatial stories built from them, and schematic integrations use the first two types to build concepts that include non-spatial elements, such as force and emotion. These different kinds of structure have all come under the umbrella term of ‘image schemas’. However, they differ in their content, developmental origin, imageability, and role in meaning construction. MORE
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