Glossary term L

Link Schema

A link schema is an image schema that consists of two or more entities, connected physically or metaphorically, and the bond between them.

(English)

  • A child holding her mother’s hand
  • Someone plugging a lamp into the wall
  • A causal “connection”
  • Kinship “ties”
  1. Johnson 1987, 117–119
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