A form of body-based representation proposed by Jordan Zlatev which builds on the notion of mimesis and which is hypothesized to ground linguistic meaning. The mimetic schema is also claimed to be superior to the related construct of image schema. Mimetic schemas have a number of properties associated with them, some of which include: the view that they are based on bodily action and are thus body based, that they are representational in that they stand for a particular object, action or event, that they are accessible to consciousness, that they are specific, each one constituting a generalization over a particular bodily act, and finally that they can be pre-reflectively shared, in the sense that they can be imitated and thus ‘shared’ via cultural exposure.