Body, language, and mind. Volume 2, Sociocultural situatedness / edited by Tom Ziemke, Jordan Zlatev, Roslyn M. Frank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziemke, T. (Tom), 1969-

Zlatev, Jordan.

Frank, Roslyn M.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; 35.

Cognitive linguistics research, 1861-4132 ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Mind and body.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought. The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language. In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction: Sociocultural situatedness

Section A: The dynamics of cultural categorization

An interview with Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer: From neurons to sociocultural situatedness

Beyond the body: Towards a full embodied semiosis

Properties of cultural embodiment: Lessons from the anthropology of the body

Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language

Collective cognition and individual activity: Variation, language and culture

Section B: The sociocultural situatedness of scientific discourse

Entangled biological, cultural and linguistic origins of the war on invasive species

In search of development

The language-organism-species analogy: A complex adaptive systems approach to shifting perspectives on languageŽ

Section C: Sociocultural situatedness in lexical and usage-based approaches to metaphor

Toward a socially situated, functionally embodied lexical semantics: The case of (all) over

The embodiment of Europe: How do metaphors evolve?

Sociocultural situatedness of terminology in the life sciences: The history of splicing

Section D: Exploring the sociocultural situatedness of language and cognition

Discourse metaphors

The relationship between metaphor, body andculture

Idealized cultural models: The group as a variable in the development of cognitive schemata

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612194672

9781282194670

1282194674

9783110262674

3110262673

9783110199116

3110199114

OCLC:

476197315