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Relational primitives, image-schemas, and dictionary entries

Ruiz de Mendoza (1996) and Ruiz de Mendoza and Otal (1999) have proposed a system of relational categories, which they label relational primitives, which describe concepts in terms of other concepts with which they are associated and with which they are discoursively interconnected. Thirteen of these relations aim at describing the internal make-up of concepts while the other five serve to structure external boundaries. The former are grouped into four main categories: actions, processes, positions, and states. The latter are classified in terms of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. Our purpose in this paper is to identify the different relational primitives, both internal and external, which help to provide the configuration of a concrete dictionary entry: 'heart'. Second, we also try to reduce some of these relations to some cognitive constructs, called image-schemas, which have been studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics in order to account for their experiential basis (Johnson 1987). Finally, we attempt to provide some more theoretical implications which pave the way for more comprehensive and experientially-grounded lexicographical projects like dictionaries.

relational primitives; image-schemas; cognitive linguistics

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