Gestalt-Based Linguistics and the GABEK Method:What Cognitive Science Has to Say on ‘Space Logic’ in Everyday Thought

Michael Kimmel

Chapter 5 in Organising Knowledge, 2004, pp 75-92 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Cognitive linguistics confirms Zelger’s (1999, 2000) basic proposition about the condensation and spatial grouping of knowledge into gestalt clusters. The cognitive linguistic approach to conceptual and linguistic gestalten opens a vista on further facets of real-life cognition that might be incorporated into GABEK. Various cognitive findings point to constraints on automated gestalt building and caution us to consider top-down and bottom-up processes of thematic integration in combination. Suggestions for method development in GABEK include taking cognitive dilemmas more seriously and analysing clashing gestalten as integrated tropes.

Keywords: Lexical Item; Image Schema; John Benjamin; Cultural Schema; Cognitive Linguistic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523111_5

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