Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

Guillemette Bolens

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032289212
• eBook ISBN: 9781003835752
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This research collection showcases how kinesic intelligence is fundamental to human communication and our ability to produce complex meaning, exploring its manifestations across a range of humanities disciplines, and connecting our past with our social and cultural future.

The book defines kinesic intelligence as a higher-order intellectual competence that allows human beings to interact and grow cognitively and intersubjectively through sensorimotricity and interpersonal movement. Understood in this way, kinesic intelligence can offer insights into the development of humans' meaning-making abilities and, in turn, society and culture more broadly. Recognizing the power of the humanities in furthering sociocultural development, the collection features perspectives from scholars across a range of topics, including the multimodality of language acquisition in children; young adults in clinical psychology and medical humanities; nonverbal communication in history; legal language and reasoning; literature and cognitive studies; the internet and multispecies anthropology; and sensoriality in history and art.

Foregrounding the impact of the humanities in promoting new understandings of human intelligence, this volume will be of interest to scholars in cognitive legal and literary studies, multimodality, anthropology, history, medical humanities, and those with an interest in the real-world impact of the humanities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: What is kinesic intelligence?
• 1 The role of kinesic intelligence in child language development
• 2 Kinesic intelligence in the care relationship: The contribution of clinical psychology to healthcare provided to adolescents and young adults with cancer
• 3 Kinesic intelligence and historical research: Gestural communication at the court of Henry VIII
• 4 Kinesic intelligence in common law reasoning
• 5 Reading as embodied simulation: Literary techniques and intersubjective collaboration
• 6 Why love a cat?: An anthropology of human–feline kinesic engagement on- and off-line
• 7 Material scent: Textiles beyond touch
• Index