Image schemas
【正确答案】：Image schemas are an important form of conceptual structure in cognitive linguistics. They are recurring structures of, or within, our cognitive processes, which establish patterns of understanding and reasoning. The basic idea is that because of our physical experience of being and acting in the world, we form basic conceptual structures which we then use to organize thought across a range of more abstract domains. These image schemas are proposed as a more primitive level of cognitive structure underlying metaphor and which provide a link between bodily experience and higher cognitive domains such as language.
