Questionaire Survey on The Relation Between Bodily Experience and the Possible Rela Hi, my dear friends! I'm now making a comparative study of posture verbs in English and Chinese, and I really need your help. People whose mother tongue is English are especially welcomed. I am looking forward to your reply. My email address: [email protected] Questionaire Survey on The Relation Between Bodily Experience of standing, sitting, lying and the Possible Related Image Schemas First of all, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to you, for the precious time you spare and the enthusiastic support you give. The following 14 schemas are more or less related to our bodily experience of standing, sitting, and lying. Each of them is given a definition for reference. [1] BALANCE It refers to your sense of symmetry or stability relative to some point within your body. [2] VERTICALITY It refers to your sense of an extension along an up-down orientation. [3] BLACKAGE It refers to your experience of some obstacle that prevents further physical or mental actions. [4] RESISTANCE It refers to your experience of your body opposing some external force. [5] ENABLEMENT It refers to your sense of some internal force or power that allows you to perform various actions. [6] ATTRACTION It refers to your experience of being pulled toward some objects or events. [7] COMPULSION It refers to your experience of being moved by external forces. [8] COUNTERFORCE It refers to your experience of the head-on meetings of two forces. [9] CENTER-PERIPHERY It refers to your experience of some objects or events as central while surrounding objects and events are peripheral or to the outside. [10] CONTAINER It refers to your experience of boundedness and enclosure. [11] PATH It refers to your experience of moving. A path involves a starting point, a course, and an end. [12] FULL-EMPTY It refers to your experience of some physical or mental thing being filled or emptied. [13] CYCLE It refers to your experience of a particular process. Cycle begins, proceeds through a sequence of events, and ends where it started. [14] LINKAGE It refers to your perception of a connection between objects or events. Now, please do a series of body movements, you can stand up, bend over, crouch, lean, lie, sit down, squat, stoop, bow, and the like. After the exercise, you will rate on a 5-point scale the degree of relatedness of each image schema to your own experience. Bodily experience Image schemas Standing Sitting Lying 1 BALANCE 2 VERTICALITY 3 BLACKAGE 4 RESISTANCE 5 ENABLEMENT 6 ATTRACTION 7 COMPULSION 8 COUNTERFORCE 9 CENTER-PERIPHERY 10 CONTAINER 11 PATH 12 FULL-EMPTY 13 CYCLE 14 LINKAGE Participant: Mother tongue: Date: The latter part is a formLeave your email address and I will contact you!