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Image schema - Definition and Overview

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Image schema is a reccurring structure of, or within our cognitive processes, which establishes patterns of understanding and reasoning. It emerges from our bodily interactions, linguistic experience and historical context. The term is explained in Mark Johnson in his book The Body in the Mind and by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking.

See also: schema (psychology), cognitive linguistics

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