Scale Schema
Scale Schema
A scale schema is an image schema that
- involves an increase or decrease of physical or metaphorical amount, and
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consists of any of the following:
- A closed- or open-ended progression of amount
- A position in the progression of amount
- One or more norms of amount
- A calibration of amount
- Physical amounts
- Properties in the number system
- Economic entities such as supply and dema
Page/s: 122–124
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/scale-schema
