Image Schema - Lists of Image Schemas

Lists of Image Schemas

While Johnson provided an initial list of image schemas in The Body in the Mind (p. 126), his diagrams for them are scattered throughout his book and he only diagrammed a portion of those image schemas he listed. In his work, Lakoff also used several additional schemas.

Johnson 1987:

Spatial motion group
Containment
Path
Source-Path-Goal
Blockage
Center-Periphery
Cycle
Cyclic Climax
Force Group
Compulsion
Counterforce
Diversion
Removal of Restraint
Enablement
Attraction
Link
Scale
Balance Group
Axis Balance
Point Balance
Twin-Pan Balance
Equilibrium
Listed but unsketched and undiscussed in Johnson
Contact
Surface
Full-Empty
Merging
Matching
Near-Far
Mass-Count
Iteration
Object
Splitting
Part-Whole
Superimposition
Process
Collection

Additional schemas discussed in Lakoff 1987:

Spatial group
Above
Across
Covering
Contact
Vertical Orientation
Length (extended trajector)
Transformational group
Linear path from moving object (one dimensional trajector)
Path to endpoint (endpoint focus)
Path to object mass (path covering)
Multiplex to mass (possibly the same as Johnson's undefined Mass-Count)
Reflexive (both part-whole and temporally different reflexives)
Rotation

Image schemas proposed and discussed by others:

Rough-smooth/Bumpy-smooth (Rohrer; Johnson and Rohrer)

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