The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "the bodily basis of phenomena such as meaning, mind, cognition and language." The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art collection of papers on embodiment and brings together a large variety of different perspectives, from cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and artificial intelligence.
Being envisioned as a reader of sorts in theoretical and empirical...
The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "...
The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it.
Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and...
The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept o...