Caballero / Díaz Vera Sensuous Cognition

Explorations into Human Sentience: Imagination, (E)motion and Perception
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-030077-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 311 Seiten

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This book provides an interdisciplinary, unified view of sensual cognition and its cultural manifestations. The contributors favour an ecological perspective and revisit and problematize some of the core assumptions in Cognitive Linguistics. One of the original tenets of CL states that human thinking is grounded in experiential gestalts as well as in interaction between peoples' embodied minds and their various environments or cultures. In addition to looking in detail at this tenet, the volume provides major insights into the methodological and theoretical dimensions of Cognitive Linguistics research and describes applications of the paradigm in diverse contexts and cultures.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Anthropologists, Philosophers, Cultural Studies Scholars, Sociolinguists, as well as Doctoral Students in those areas

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caballero, Rosario

Díaz Vera, Javier E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;1 Unifying the body, mind and culture;9
1.1;References;13
2;Part I: The mind and the body;15
2.1;2 Different bodies, different minds: The body-specificity of language and thought;17
2.1.1;Introduction;17
2.1.2;Body-specificity of action language and motor imagery;18
2.1.3;Imagined actions;19
2.1.4;Motor action and verb meaning;19
2.1.5;Body-specificity of emotion;20
2.1.6;Choosing sides;20
2.1.7;How using your hands can change your mind;21
2.1.8;Motivation and motor action;23
2.1.9;Conclusions and future directions;23
2.1.10;Acknowledgments;24
2.1.11;References;24
2.2;3 Body and mind in Euskera: Contrasting dialogic and monologic subjectivities;27
2.2.1;Introduction: Theoretical considerations;27
2.2.2;The concept of self;34
2.2.3;The Basque concept gogo;36
2.2.4;The construal of two common physical sensations: hunger and sleepiness;40
2.2.5;Further evidence of dialogic subjectivity;51
2.2.6;Conclusions;54
2.2.7;References;55
2.3;4 The body in anatomy: Looking at head for the mind-body link in Chinese;61
2.3.1;Introduction;61
2.3.2;A look at head through a lexical scan;63
2.3.3;A look at “head” through a decompositional analysis —;74
2.3.4;Conclusions;78
2.3.5;Acknowledgments;79
2.3.6;References;79
3;Part II: Cognition and perception;83
3.1;5 Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres;85
3.1.1;Introduction;85
3.1.2;Perceptual landscapes in architectural reviews;87
3.1.3;Perceptual landscapes in wine reviews —;100
3.1.4;The perceptual landscapes of architecture and wine in summary;111
3.1.5;Acknowledgments;113
3.1.6;References;113
3.2;6 The power of the senses and the role of culture in metaphor and language;117
3.2.1;Introduction;117
3.2.2;Sense perception and conceptual metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics;118
3.2.3;Some caveats: Motivation, entrenchment, and distribution;122
3.2.4;Conclusions;136
3.2.5;Acknowledgments;137
3.2.6;References;138
3.3;7 Vision and conceptualization in ancient Egyptian art;143
3.3.1;Introduction;143
3.3.2;Principles of ancient Egyptian art;144
3.3.3;Evaluations of the principles of ancient Egyptian art;148
3.3.4;Perspectives from the philosophy of perception;151
3.3.5;The conceptual nature of ancient Egyptian art;158
3.3.6;Mind, body and vision: Remarks by way of conclusion;170
3.3.7;References;172
3.4;8 One man’s cheese is another man’s music: Synaesthesia and the bridging of cultural differences in the language of sensory perception;177
3.4.1;Introduction;177
3.4.2;Arguing with the senses;179
3.4.3;One rat’s cheese is another rat’s fireworks;186
3.4.4;Banquets of innocence and experience;191
3.4.5;Conclusion;197
3.4.6;Acknowledgements;197
3.4.7;References;198
4;Part III: Imagination and (e)motion;201
4.1;9 Embodied emotions in medieval English language and visual arts;203
4.1.1;Introduction;203
4.1.2;Methodology and data;205
4.1.3;The embodiment of fear expressions in Old English;206
4.1.4;The embodiment of fear in the Bayeaux Tapestry;213
4.1.5;Interpreting pictorial signals of fear;221
4.1.6;Results and discussion;222
4.1.7;References;225
4.2;10 Moving across metaphorical space over developmental time;229
4.2.1;Introduction;229
4.2.2;How robust is the structuring of abstracts concepts in terms of spatial motion?;231
4.2.3;How early do children think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of spatial motion?;236
4.2.4;What explains developmental changes in children’s metaphorical abilities?;245
4.2.5;Discussion;251
4.2.6;References;254
4.3;11 Conceptualisations of ruh ‘spirit/soul’ and jesm ‘body’ in Persian: A Sufi perspective;259
4.3.1;Introduction;259
4.3.2;Jesm and ruh in Persian;260
4.3.3;Conceptualizations of the body in Sufism;261
4.3.4;Conceptualizations of the Sufi spiritual path;263
4.3.5;Neoplatonism and Sufism;268
4.3.6;Concluding remarks;270
4.3.7;References;271
4.4;12 Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends;273
4.4.1;The power of material anchors in performativity;273
4.4.2;Spatial alignment with the universe;279
4.4.3;Structural blends and alignments in the buildings;287
4.4.4;Moving through sacred spaces;290
4.4.5;Conclusions;296
4.4.6;Acknowledgments;297
4.4.7;References;298
4.5;13 Postscript to Sensuous Cognition: The language of the senses;301
4.5.1;References;307
5;Subject Index;309

Über Autor(innen)

Rosario Caballero and Javier E. Díaz-Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.