Several decades of cognitive science research suggest that there are powerful primary schemas underlying much of human language and thought
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Several decades of cognitive science research suggest that there are powerful primary schemas underlying much of human language and thought. These schemas arise from embodied interaction with the natural world in a socio-cultural setting and are extended via conceptual metaphor to structure the acquisition and use of complex concepts. Specifically, the structure of abstract actions is characterized cognitively in terms of schematized recurring patterns from the embodied domains of force, motion, and space.
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