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Linguistic Bodies
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Author : Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Linguistic Bodies written by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Psychology categories.
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language. Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding and deepening enactive theory, they offer a constitutive account of language and the co-emergent phenomena of personhood, reflexivity, social normativity, and ideality. Language, they argue, is not something we add to a range of existing cognitive capacities but a new way of being embodied. Each of us is a linguistic body in a community of other linguistic bodies. The book describes three distinct yet entangled kinds of human embodiment, organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective; it traces the emergence of linguistic sensitivities and introduces the novel concept of linguistic bodies; and it explores the implications of living as linguistic bodies in perpetual becoming, applying the concept of linguistic bodies to questions of language acquisition, parenting, autism, grammar, symbol, narrative, and gesture, and to such ethical concerns as microaggression, institutional speech, and pedagogy.
The Body In Language
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Author : Matthias Brenzinger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-07-17
The Body In Language written by Matthias Brenzinger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.
Linguistic Bodies
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Author : Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Linguistic Bodies written by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Psychology categories.
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language. Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding and deepening enactive theory, they offer a constitutive account of language and the co-emergent phenomena of personhood, reflexivity, social normativity, and ideality. Language, they argue, is not something we add to a range of existing cognitive capacities but a new way of being embodied. Each of us is a linguistic body in a community of other linguistic bodies. The book describes three distinct yet entangled kinds of human embodiment, organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective; it traces the emergence of linguistic sensitivities and introduces the novel concept of linguistic bodies; and it explores the implications of living as linguistic bodies in perpetual becoming, applying the concept of linguistic bodies to questions of language acquisition, parenting, autism, grammar, symbol, narrative, and gesture, and to such ethical concerns as microaggression, institutional speech, and pedagogy.
The Body In Language
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Author : Horst Ruthrof
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-17
The Body In Language written by Horst Ruthrof and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book opposes the position that meanings can be explained by way of intralinguistic relations, as in structural linguistics and its successors, and rejects definitional descriptions of meaning as well as naturalistic accounts. The idea that we are able to live by strings of mere signifiers is shown to rest on a misconception. Ruthrof also attempts an explanation of why arguments grounded in a post-Saussurean view of language, as for instance certain feminist theories, find it so difficult to show how precisely the body can be reclaimed as an integral part of linguistic signs. In reinstating the body in language, Ruthrof draws on Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Derrida, cognitive linguistics and rhetoric, as well as on the writings of Helen Keller.
Body Part Terms In Conceptualization And Language Usage
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Author : Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Body Part Terms In Conceptualization And Language Usage written by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Human body categories.
Introduction / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience : a corpus-based study / Ning Yu -- Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk -- Body part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools / Helma Pasch -- Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Body part terms in musical discourse / Sanja Kiš Žuvela -- 'Body' and the relationship between verb and participants / Zygmunt Frajzyngier -- On the grammatical uses of the 'head' in Wolof : from reflexivity to intensifying uses / Stéphane Robert -- Multifaceted body parts in Murui : a case study from Northwest Amazonia / Katarzyna I. Wojtylak -- The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish / Melike Baş -- Keeping an eye on body parts : cultural conceptualizations of the 'eye' in Hungarian / Judit Baranyiné Kóczy -- The conceptualization of ido 'eye' in Hausa / Ahmadu Shehu -- Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish / Małgorzata Waśniewska -- Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk 'belly/stomach' in Kurdish / Vahede Nosrati.
Bodies And Language
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Author : Vaidehi Ramanathan
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2009-11-26
Bodies And Language written by Vaidehi Ramanathan and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of ‘normal’ bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of ‘abnormality,’ ‘disability’ and ‘impairments.’ It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create ‘meanings’ about bodies and ‘normalcy,’ and the importance of remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or claim to do.
The Body In Flannery O Connor S Fiction
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Author : Donald E. Hardy
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007
The Body In Flannery O Connor S Fiction written by Donald E. Hardy and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a close quantitative examination of the interactions of grammatical voice and physical bodies in her texts. Bridging literary theory and linguistics, Hardy demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice - roughly indicating that the subject is acting upon himself or herself. productive approach to understanding O'Connor's use of the body and its parts in her explorations of the sacramental and the grotesque. Linguistic analysis of grammatical middle voice is coupled with quantitative analysis of body-part words and the collocations in which they appear to present a new point of entrance to understanding O'Connor's stylistic manipulations of the body as central to the rift between spirit and matter. Through this method of reading O'Connor, Hardy makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of work that is introducing linguistic terminology and concepts into literary studies.
Embodiment Via Body Parts
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Author : Zouheir A. Maalej
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08-18
Embodiment Via Body Parts written by Zouheir A. Maalej and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.
Culture Body And Language
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Author : Farzad Sharifian
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-11-03
Culture Body And Language written by Farzad Sharifian and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between culture, body and language has not received the due attention that it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in relation to body and language. A well-established notion that appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a collective attempt to explore the relationship between body, language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which internal body organs have been employed in different languages to conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for the observed similarities as well as differences of the various conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to internal body organs across different languages but also with the origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such as that of Descartes.
Language Body And Health
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Author : Paul McPherron
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Language Body And Health written by Paul McPherron and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This edited book addresses ways in which 'bodies' conceived broadly – get languaged, and ways in which ideas of 'normalcy' and 'normal' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or 'unusual' bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present volume represents a departure from other works in at least two ways. First, it brings in discourses around bodies per se into language-related research, a realm that previous research has not directly engaged. Second, it ushers in discussions about bodies by critically addressing the language by which experiences around bodily breakdowns and ailments occur. Calling attention to a host of discourses – biomedical, societal, poststructuralist – and drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, critical theories, ethnographically gathered materials, and extant data, the chapters pierce the general veil of silence that we have collectively drawn regarding how some of our most intimate body (dis)functions impact our everyday living and sense of "normalcy".