Brenda, Maria
Mazurkiewicz-Sokolowska, Jolanta
Editorial: John Benjamins Publishing
Colección: Human Cognitive Processing ; 74
Número de páginas: 256 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2022
EAN: 9789027211576
ISBN: 978-90-272-1157-6
Precio (sin IVA): 117,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 121,68 €
This book is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.