Embodiment
- 473 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 research on embodiment, the book revolves around several core issues that have been addressed previously, to a large degree independently, in various disciplines. In particular the volume illustrates the diversity of notions of embodiment that has arisen in various disciplines over the last twenty years, and addresses the question how these different interpretations relate to each other, i.e. are they different aspects of or different perspectives on the same phenomena, or do they actually contradict each other? For this purpose, several aspects of cognition and language, such as phenomenal experience, perception, action, conceptualization, communication, meaning creation, social interaction and culture, are illuminated from the perspective of different theories of embodiment.
The contributions are integrated through cross-connections between individual authors' papers and through an introductory essay that identifies the different strands of research, the central issues that they share, and the synergies that can be gained from addressing embodiment from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: The body eclectic
- We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism
- Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's ecology of agency
- From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics
- Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive science perspective
- Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces
- From pre-representational cognition to language
- Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes
- Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience
- Embodiment, language, and mimesis
- The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment
- On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature
- Embodiment and self-organization of human categories: A case study for speech
- Communication as situated, embodied practice
- Backmatter