The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
21. Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
Leonard Talmy
Description
This paper relates to the schematic system of FORCE-DYNAMICS and argues that this system, as it is manifested in semantic structure, relates to the way in which objects are conceived relative to the exertion of force, which derives in embodied terms, from the haptic system.