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