“Action-Metaphor”: The Performatic Sources of Human Meaning-Making

Abstract

covering almost every aspect of human activity […] [p]erformance discourse and its close theoretical partner, "performativity", today dominate critical discourse not only in all manner of cultural studies, but also in business, economics, and technology. The rise of an interest in performance reflects a major shift in many cultural fields from the what to the how, from the accumulation of social, cultural, psychological, political, or linguistic data to a consideration of how this material is created, valorized, and changed, to how it lives and operates within the culture, by its actions (Carlson 2004 2 , p. ix).

Schema Therapy: The Healthy Adult Meets Sherlock Holmes—An Enactivist and Embodied Cognition Perspective of Metaphor

“…In so doing, the therapist activates the semantic roles of the client's orientation frame ('right side/correct movement') and the performance/doing frame ("action"). As noted by Deriu (2020), "performing is a mode of behavior that may characterize any activity" (p. 2). Further, by making the above statement, the therapist taps into a primary metaphor-a circuit that maps "primitive neural schemas onto other primitive neural schemas" (Lakoff, 2014: p. 6).…”