The Embodiment of Language

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ID23590761
AuthorsMark Johnson (0000-0001-6721-2428, Philosophy, University of Oregon), Mark H Johnson (0000-0003-4229-2585, University of Oregon, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages623-640
Publication date2018-10-09
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198735410.013.33
OpenAlexW2897242367
ISBN9780198735410
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

Analytic philosophy of language was originally based on a fundamentally disembodied view of meaning and language. In contrast, research in cognitive linguistics and neuroscience emphasizes the central role of the body and brain in shaping meaning, concepts, and thought. Meaning is not, in the first instance, linguistic. Instead, language depends on and recruits prior sensory, motor, and affective processes. This article surveys some of the more important embodied structures and processes of meaning-making that give rise to the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of natural languages. This includes body-part projections, perceptual concepts, image schemas, emotions, body-based grammatical constructions, and conceptual metaphors, as those are understood from the perspective of simulation semantics, embodied construction grammar, and the neural theory of language. In addition to the four Es of cognition—embodied, embedded, enactive, extended—we need to add three more Es—emotional, evolutionary, and exaptative.

Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Cognitive science · Cognitive semantics · Embodied cognition · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Pragmatics · Semantics (computer science) · Syntax · Action Observation and Synchronization · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology

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