Added: Aug 28, 2008
Author: conferencereport
Duration: 4:50
There is an established relationship between embodied actions carried out in the physical world and 'schema' in the mind/brain. Regular routine behaviours are captured as these schema and act as a kind of 'vocabulary'; so for example, the repeated physical action pattern of setting out from one location, moving along a path, and arriving at another location, is imprinted as a schematic structure within which different content (different locations and spaces) might be placed. (This structure is incidentally also available for metaphorical use). In addition to this correlation between action and thought, there seems to be a further correlation between this structure and the structure of language, so the SOURCE PATH GOAL schema referred to above corresponds to the SUBJECT VERB OBJECT relation of many common sentences (in English).
Channel: Education
Tags: action chomsky embodiment image johnson lakoff metaphor pinker schema
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