A Cognitive Text Analysis of The Art of Living

摘要

1 Introduction On a cognitive basis, image schemas highlight five specific features: (1) their serving as a bridge between concrete, sensor-motor experience and abstract reasoning; (2) their being emergent patterns created and evoked, directly or indirectly, when people engage in understanding language; (3) their function of interactions among image schemas; (4) their showing of a plus-minus parameter (I. E. the tendency of the opposing parts of an image schema to be more positively or negatively valued) ; and (S) their static and dynamic nature (Tseng, 2007,135).