Distributed language / edited by Stephen J. Cowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cowley, Stephen J.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 34.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Language acquisition.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially 'symbolic', not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go a

Contents:

Distributed Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; About the Authors; Distributed language; The role of anticipation in reading; The experiential basis of speech and writing as different cognitive domains; Insightful thinking; Actualizing semiotic affordances in a material world; Languaging in Shakespeare's theatre; Semiotic cognition and the logic of culture; Ecological pragmatics; Symbols as constraints; Beyond mind; Subject Index; Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613314734

9781283314732

1283314738

9789027284150

9027284156

OCLC:

757261183