: Tom Ziemke, Jordan Zlatev, Roslyn M. Frank
: Embodiment
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110207507
: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.80
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 473
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The volume focuses on the concept ofembodiment, 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.

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Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden;Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden;Roslyn M. Frank, University of Iowa, USA.

Frontmatter1
Table of contents5
List of contributors7
Introduction: The body eclectic15
We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism31
Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's ecology of agency69
From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics99
Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive science perspective143
Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces181
From pre-representational cognition to language211
Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes255
Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience285
Embodiment, language, and mimesis311
The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment353
On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature393
Embodiment and self-organization of human categories: A case study for speech425
Communication as situated, embodied practice445
Backmatter471