Image Schemas as Families of Theories
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چکیده
Image schemas are recognised as a fundamental ingredient in human cognition and creative thought. They have been studied extensively in areas such as cognitive linguistics. However, the very notion of image schemas is still ill-defined, with varying terminology and definitions throughout the literature. For the purpose of formalising image schemas in order to exploit their role in computational creative systems, we here study the viability of the idea to formalise image schemas as graphs of interlinked theories. We discuss in particular a selection of image schemas related to the notion of ‘path’ and show how they can be mapped to a formalised family of micro theories reflecting the di erent aspects of path following.
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