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Author(s) -
Justyna Winiarska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lingvaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1226
pISSN - 1896-2122
DOI - 10.12797/lv.16.2021.32.07
Subject(s) - image schema , linguistics , schema (genetic algorithms) , expression (computer science) , pragmatics , phenomenon , cognitive linguistics , meaning (existential) , conceptual metaphor , philosophy , cognition , epistemology , psychology , metaphor , computer science , neuroscience , machine learning , programming language
Is It True that “If You Run Ahead of Yourself, You Cannot Go Very Far”? Image Schemata and Aphorisms
The author uses a cognitive tool called image schemata to analyse aphorisms. The schemata originate from early bodily experience and are enable to ground the phenomenon of linguistic meaning there. The aphorism is defined not only as a linguistic fact but as a conceptual structure based on an axiological clash. The clash results from profiling opposite values in the used schemata. Considering the language-values relationship, the article adopts a cognitive linguistics approach which claims that valuation is an immanent part of symbolic language units and it mustn’t be relegated to the area of pragmatics. Following Krzeszowski’s concept, the author assumes that preconceptual schemata interact with the SCALE schema. The hearer/reader of the self-contradictory expression must reinterpret it using metaphorical meanings. These are easily available thanks to conceptual metaphors which include image schemata in their source domains.