Body, language, and mind / 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 ; 35.1.

Cognitive linguistics research ; 35.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Mind and body.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

v. 1. Embodiment

We are live creatures / Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer

Bringing the body back to life / Alan Costall

From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning / Goran Sonesson

Embodiment and social interaction / Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke

Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces / Peter Gardenfors

From pre-representational cognition to language / Takashi Ikegami and Jordan Zlatev

Making sense of embodied cognition / Henrik Svensson, Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke

Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience / Shaun Gallagher

Embodiment, language and mimesis / Jordan Zlatev

The body in space / Tim Rohrer

On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature / Claus Emmeche

Embodiment and self-organization of human categories / Luc Steels and Bart de Boer

Communication as situated, embodied practice / Wolff-Michael Roth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612196867

9781282196865

1282196863

9783110207507

3110207508

OCLC:

476197024