Title: [[Containment Schema]] Index: Reviewed Date: [[2022-02-06]] *** ## Note [Definition: ](https://glossary.sil.org/term/containment-schema) _The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning_ ([[@johnson_body_1990]], 21-22) 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. ## Related Notes ## References