TY - JOUR AU - Long, Do Tuan AU - Huyen Trang, Vu Thi PY - 2020/03/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE MEANING EXTENSION OF OVER: A CRITIQUE OF KEY THEORIES JF - VNU Journal of Foreign Studies JA - JFS VL - 36 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4497 UR - https://jfs.ulis.vnu.edu.vn/index.php/fs/article/view/4497 SP - AB - This paper summarizes different approaches to the meaning extension of the English preposition over and proposes a multimodal approach comprising three spatial image theories and one mental space theory in reference to an image-based view. It is concluded that the author’s proposal is a combination of Deane’s 2005 multimodal spatial representations and 2017 Kövecses’s model, in which there is an emphasis that treating the spatial configurations of a spatial marker requires different frames and when the marker denotes a non-spatial sense, there exists an activation of a metaphor layered from its frame in certain context with a specific communicative purpose to the domain of which the frame is a part and finally the activation will reach the image schema that supports the frame. ER -