Linguistic conceptualizations of number

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• Claudia Flohr

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• Manuels
• Manuels universitaires

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Embodiment is integral to both abstract mathematical concepts and linguistic structures, stemming from embodied cognition. This work investigates Image Schemas in learners’ speech regarding mathematical concepts, focusing on pre-conceptual patterns arising from embodied cognition that manifest in language. Adopting a cognitive linguistics perspective, it explores the linguistic representation of mathematical concepts and identifies the image schemas used for cognitive representation. The theoretical framework encompasses image schemas, cognitive representation, and Cognitive Grammar, detailing concepts of numbers, number ranges, and basic operations while illustrating the connection between image schemas and mathematical structures. The analysis examines empirical data from bilingual learners of mathematics to demonstrate how they linguistically construe mathematical concepts. It includes a description of linguistic construals, leading to the identification of prevalent construal dimensions and image schemas. Additionally, it evaluates the relationship between cognitive representation and the mathematical structures they depict. Findings reveal that cognizers utilize diverse image schematic structures grounded in SPACE, LOCOMOTION, CONTAINMENT, and UNITY/MULTIPLICITY to conceptualize numbers. The exploration of construal dimensions of perspective, attention, and salience uncovers nuanced relationships between image schemas and

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• Année de publication: 2018