What is a containment schema?

Definition
	A containment schema is an image schema that involves a physical or metaphorical
	boundary enclosed area or volume, or excluded area or volume.

Discussion
	A containment schema can have additional optional properties, such as
	transitivity of enclosure (whereby if one object is enclosed by a second, and that by a third, the first is also enclosed by the third) objects inside or outside the boundary protectedness of an enclosed object the restriction of forces inside the enclosure, and the relatively fixed position of an enclosed object.

Generic
	A containment schema is a kind of
	What is an image schema?

Source
	Johnson 1987 21-22

Context for this page:

Concept module: containment schema
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): C
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Linguistics

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