EMBODIED COGNITION THESIS
Keywords:
embodied cognition thesis, image schema, concept, sensory and perceptual experience, container, conceptual metaphorAbstract
This article explores the concept of image schemas, first introduced by Johnson (1987), as fundamental cognitive structures grounded in embodied experience. Image schemas such as container, source-path-goal, balance, and object arise from recurrent sensory and perceptual interactions with the world and provide the foundational patterns through which humans conceptualize and organize experience. They serve as the basis for more complex ideas through metaphorical mappings between concrete and abstract domains. The study of image schemas is topical because it reveals how embodied experience structures thought and language, offering valuable insights for cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory, and the interdisciplinary study of human cognition.
