An Investigation of MERGING Image Schema: A Cognitive Semantic PerspectiveThis study is based on the content analysis method. It is qualitative, descriptive and analytical. Its main goal is to explore MERGING Image Schema as it is one of the image schemas that are recognized as significant constituents in humans’ cognitive system and their creative thinking. Image schema theory can be considered as an advanced way of inspection into a nonobjective and sensorimotor experiences. This image schema is dealt with by scholars who are interested in cognitive studies but in this study, the researchers attempt to introduce and involve many authentic perspectives and formalizing new subcategories to it in addition to setting up their visual representations as a way of schematizing their structures and explaining their unique cognitive models. The study comes up with important conclusions. The most essential one is that MERGING image schema can be described as consisting of entities that have kinetic energy. These entities are flexible involved in a SOURCE-PATH-GOAL schema caused by a FORCE to integrate these entities, thus to be in CONTACT and then MERGING together into an entirely new entity either in its internal or external structure or evolving features of the original constitutive entities. Consequently, this schema involves sequential processes of integration and addition.
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Cognitive Semantics, Image Schema, MERGING image schemaAbstract
This study is based on the content analysis method. It is qualitative, descriptive and analytical. Its main goal is to explore MERGING Image Schema as it is one of the image schemas that are recognized as significant constituents in humans’ cognitive system and their creative thinking. Image schema theory can be considered as an advanced way of inspection into a nonobjective and sensorimotor experiences. This image schema is dealt with by scholars who are interested in cognitive studies but in this study, the researchers attempt to introduce and involve many authentic perspectives and formalizing new subcategories to it in addition to setting up their visual representations as a way of schematizing their structures and explaining their unique cognitive models. The study comes up with important conclusions. The most essential one is that MERGING image schema can be described as consisting of entities that have kinetic energy. These entities are flexible involved in a SOURCE-PATH-GOAL schema caused by a FORCE to integrate these entities, thus to be in CONTACT and then MERGING together into an entirely new entity either in its internal or external structure or evolving features of the original constitutive entities. Consequently, this schema involves sequential processes of integration and addition.
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