Subsidiarity relationships between image-schemas: an approach to the force schema

María Sandra Peña Cervel ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja
  
  Universidad de La Rioja
  
  Logroño, España
Localización: Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1576-6357, Nº 1, 1999, págs. 187-208
Idioma: español
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Resumen
- In this paper, we investigate the nature of the FORCE image-schema as subsidiary to the PATH schema. On the basis that not all image-schemas can be ranked on a par (see Pauwels & Simon-Vandenbergen 1993 and Peña 1998) we establish three different types of subsidiarity relationships between image-schemas. We further observe that the FORCE image-schema plays a prominent role in the conceptualization of metaphors for emotions in English. Additionally, the seemingly chaotic and abstract domain of emotions will be shown to be endowed with coherence and structure