Polysemy Across Image Schemas: Swedish FRAM

Author: Hellberg, Staffan

Source: Studia Linguistica, Volume 61, Number 1, April 2007 , pp. 20-58(39)

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Abstract:

There has been some reluctance among scholars to accept the possibility that the image schema structure for a polysemous word can vary from one subsense to another, one image schema dominating for one subsense and another for the other. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that this possibility does indeed exist. For the polysemous Swedish adverb or particle fram, it is shown that no less than four image schemas are primary in different subsenses, viz. thefront-backschema, thecentre-peripheryschema, thesource-path-goalschema, and thecontainerschema. Furthermore, although these schemas also appear in backgrounded functions in other subsenses, thus securing the network, no single schema is present in all subsenses.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9582.2007.00130.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Scandinavian Languages Stockholm University SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden, Email: staffan.hellberg@nordiska.su.se

Publication date: 2007-04-01