?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Body+in+Literature%3A+Mark+Johnson%2C+Metaphor%2C+and+Feeling&rft.creator=Miall%2C+David+S.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=An+inadequate+grasp+of+the+role+of+imagination+has+vitiated+understanding+of+human+cognition+in+western+thinking.+Extending+a+project+initiated+with+George+Lakoff+in+%3CI%3EMetaphors+we+Live+By%3C%2FI%3E+(1980)%2C+Mark+Johnson's+book+%3CI%3EThe+Body+in+the+Mind%3C%2FI%3E+(1987)+offers+the+claim+that+all+thinking+originates+in+bodily+experience.+A+range+of+schemata+formed+during+our+early+experience+manipulating+a+physical+world+of+surfaces%2C+distances%2C+and+forces%2C+lays+the+foundation+of+later%2C+more+abstract+modes+of+thought.+In+presenting+his+argument%2C+Johnson+lays+special+stress+on+the+qualities+and+dynamics+of+the+image+schemata%2C+the+(generally+unnoticed)+metaphoricity+of+the+transformations+underlying+abstract+thought%2C+and+the+new+significance+that+should+be+attributed+to+the+imagination%2C+which+is+the+general+term+Johnson+wishes+to+claim+for+the+mental+processes+he+expounds.+In+this+paper+I+draw+attention+to+the+importance+of+Johnson's+insights+for+understanding+literary+response.+In+particular%2C+I+will+show+how+a+typical+procedure+of+literary+texts+involves+bringing+to+awareness+image+schemata+of+the+kind+that+Johnson+describes.+At+the+same+time%2C+several+problems+in+Johnson's+account+which+limit+its+usefulness+will+also+be+examined%3A+an+undue+reliance+upon+the+spatial+properties+of+schemata%3B+a+conflation+of+dead+with+live+or+poetic+metaphors%3B+and+a+neglect+of+other+bodily+influences+on+thought%2C+especially+kinaesthetic+and+affective+aspects.+These+problems%2C+for+example%2C+limit+the+usefulness+of+Johnson's+attempt+to+build+on+Kant's+theory+of+imagination.+In+comparison+with+Coleridge%2C+who+also+attempted+to+build+on+Kant%2C+Johnson+is+unable+to+overcome+the+formalism+of+Kant's+theory.+Coleridge's+account+of+imagination%2C+I+will+suggest%2C+provides+a+better+foundation+for+examining+the+bodily+basis+of+meaning%2C+while+remaining+compatible+with+Johnson's+intentions+and+his+more+valuable+insights.&rft.date=1997-10&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F315%2F1%2FBODYMIND.htm&rft.identifier=++Miall%2C+David+S.++(1997)+The+Body+in+Literature%3A+Mark+Johnson%2C+Metaphor%2C+and+Feeling.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F315%2F