Containers

Roles: container, contents, opening, boundary

Bounded enclosures that hold, protect, and regulate access to their contents. One of Lakoff and Johnson’s primary image schemas — we understand categories, emotions, and institutions as containers with insides, outsides, and boundaries. The frame’s simplicity makes it one of the most universally mapped structures in human cognition.

As Source Frame (6)

• Activities Are Containers → event-structure
• Bottleneck → systems-performance
• Communication Is Sending → communication
• Emotions Are Entities Within A Person → mental-experience
• Life Is a Container → life-course
• The Visual Field Is A Container → vision