What is a scale schema?

A scale schema is an image schema that

• involves an increase or decrease of physical or metaphorical amount, and

• consists of any of the following:

  • A closed- or open-ended progression of amount
  • A position in the progression of amount
  • One or more norms of amount
  • A calibration of amount

• Physical amounts
• Properties in the number system
• Economic entities such as supply and demand

• What is an image schema?

Johnson 1987 122–124

Context for this page:

• Concept module: scale schema
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): S
• 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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