Containment Schema
Containment Schema
A containment schema is an image schema that involves a physical or metaphorical
- boundary
- enclosed area or volume, or
- excluded area or volume.
A containment schema can have additional optional properties, such as
- transitivity of enclosure (whereby if one object is enclosed by a second, and that by a third, the first is also enclosed by the third)
- objects inside or outside the boundary
- protectedness of an enclosed object
- the restriction of forces inside the enclosure, and
- the relatively fixed position of an enclosed object.
Page/s: 21-22
Source: Johnson 1987
Johnson, Mark. 1987. The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Image Schema
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/containment-schema
