ABSTRACT
Introduction
The present study attempts to test experimentally several assumptions raised by cognitive linguists. They assume that the image schematic structures underly the metaphorical expressions on emotions Cognitive linguists analyze emotion concepts such as anger(Lakoff, 1987), happiness(Kovecses, 1991) using linguistic materials. This study introduces a new method: first, direct method to explore image schema by having subjects drawn emotion concepts, second, to compared the image schema of four drawings of emotion concepts.
