Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

The study of effect of type of Image Schemas on narrative structure in Scientific and Literary Texts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Akram Shekarian Behzadi 1
Arsalan Golfam 2
Hayat Ameri 3
1 department of literature. Humanities, and social sciences, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Linguistics Department, Humanities Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 assistant professor of center of Persian language and literature research, Tarbiat Modares University,Tehran,Iran.
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine and compare the image schemas in scientific and literary texts within the framework of cognitive linguistics. According to cognitive linguists, the importance of image schemas, as a part of language and thought, is that they, in terms of rudimentary embodied concepts, systematically provide the fundamental building blocks for more complex concepts. That makes their study inevitable in many fields. In this study, we examined Johnson’s basic image schemas (i.e. force, path, and containment) in scientific and literary texts, as two extremely different genres. We used qualitative, descriptive, and inferential methods in our examination. The results show that, despite their significant difference (p < .05), all three schemas are used in both scientific and literary genres. The most frequent schemas in scientific and literary texts were containment schemas (56%) and path schemas (52%), respectively. There also was a significant difference between schematic (9%) and non-schematic (91%) sentences (p < .05). We suggested that the observed difference between the two genres may be due to the fact that scientific concepts are more abstract, and the use of schemas facilitates their understanding.
Keywords
"Cognitive Semantics"
"Image schema of Johnson"
"Scientific texts"
"Literary texts"
"narrative structure"
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 4, Issue 7
April 2020
Pages 144-117

  • Receive Date 24 July 2019
  • Revise Date 11 December 2019
  • Accept Date 26 December 2019