The Conceptual Structure of Popular Proverbs in Relation to Schemas

Abstract

The study aims to determine the status of meaning and its pictorial representation at the level of conceptual structure, and to demonstrate how images are organized in the mind based on mental mapping or image mapping, as it is the basis for understanding the world around us. The mental image represents concepts in a mental representation based on sensory inputs (visual, auditory, or tactile perception). As a result, the neural structure is transformed into a pictorial structure. The mental image can represent the basis for the creation of a map, as it is considered the thing that the mind perceives with the aid of the external senses. As a result, it is responsible for maintaining the sensation in the soul after the absence of the external influence and recalling it to the mind in new forms. The image is a rich representation of its subject, and the map is a fixed, poor form. The two concepts have been combined into one concept, which is what is called (image mapping).

The nature of the research required it to be structured around three axes: the first included the concept of conceptual structure and its working mechanism; the second addressed the concept of script and its types; and the third addressed the manifestations of conceptual scripts in popular proverbs.