What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language

From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 313-342

  Zlatev, Jordan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

"Grounding"; Bodily mimesis; Consciousness; Intersubjectivity; Language acquisition; Mimetic schemas; Representation

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