Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-28921-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cognitive Humanities

This research collection showcases how kinesic intelligence is fundamental to human communication and our ability to produce complex meaning, exploring its manifestations across a range of humanities disciplines, and connecting our past with our social and cultural future.

The book defines kinesic intelligence as a higher-order intellectual competence that allows human beings to interact and grow cognitively and intersubjectively through sensorimotricity and interpersonal movement. Understood in this way, kinesic intelligence can offer insights into the development of humans’ meaning-making abilities and, in turn, society and culture more broadly. Recognizing the power of the humanities in furthering sociocultural development, the collection features perspectives from scholars across a range of topics, including the multimodality of language acquisition in children; young adults in clinical psychology and medical humanities; nonverbal communication in history; legal language and reasoning; literature and cognitive studies; the internet and multispecies anthropology; and sensoriality in history and art.

Foregrounding the impact of the humanities in promoting new understandings of human intelligence, this volume will be of interest to scholars in cognitive legal and literary studies, multimodality, anthropology, history, medical humanities, and those with an interest in the real-world impact of the humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolens, Guillemette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

 

List of Contributors

 

Introduction: What is Kinesic Intelligence?

Guillemette Bolens

 

Chapter 1: The Role of Kinesic Intelligence in Child Language Development

              Aliyah Morgenstern

 

Chapter 2: Kinesic Intelligence in the Care Relationship: The Contribution of Clinical Psychology to Healthcare Provided to Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

              Élise Ricadat

 

Chapter 3: Kinesic Intelligence and Historical Research: Gestural Communication at the Court of Henry VIII

              Greg Walker

 

Chapter 4: Kinesic Intelligence in Common Law Reasoning

              Maksymilian Del Mar

 

Chapter 5: Reading as Embodied Simulation: Literary Techniques and Intersubjective Collaboration

              Paul B. Armstrong

 

Chapter 6: Why Love a Cat? An Anthropology of Human–Feline Kinesic Engagement On- and Off-line

              Ellen Hertz

 

Chapter 7: Material Scent: Textiles beyond Touch

              Jessica Hemmings

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Guillemette Bolens is Professor of Medieval and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of several books, including The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) and Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture (OUP, 2021). Her work has been published in Poetics Today, Cahiers de narratologie, Studia Neophilologica, and Cogent Arts & Humanities.