Ziemke / Zlatev / Frank Embodiment

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020750-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35.1, 473 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

The first volume of the two-volume set 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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Scholars and Students in Linguistics (especially Cog

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziemke, Tom

Zlatev, Jordan

Frank, Roslyn M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;List of contributors;7
4;Introduction: The body eclectic;15
5;We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism;31
6;Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's ecology of agency;69
7;From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics;99
8;Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive science perspective;143
9;Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces;181
10;From pre-representational cognition to language;211
11;Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes;255
12;Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience;285
13;Embodiment, language, and mimesis;311
14;The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment;353
15;On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature;393
16;Embodiment and self-organization of human categories: A case study for speech;425
17;Communication as situated, embodied practice;445
18;Backmatter;471

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden; Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden; Roslyn M. Frank, University of Iowa, USA.