A Different World
Embodied Experience and Linguistic Relativity on the Epistemological Path to Somewhere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2464802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Ann Watson‐gegeo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of Consciousness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-4202 • E-ISSN: 1556-3537 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ac.2004.15.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W1981691718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article explores the role of limit experiences (Tracy) and linguistic relativity (Whorf) in shaping our ontological and epistemological understandings of the world. Specifically, I trace the transformations in embodied understanding I have undergone in three situations across my life course-in Hawai'i, Solomon Islands, and as an acutely ill and disabled patient in a live-in clinic in Dallas, Texas. I give examples of how our perceptions, conceptions, and proprioceptions are positioned, constrained, opened to interpretation, and even denied by our culture and language. Limit experiences, however, open the possibility for transformation of understanding and recognition that there are probably infinite manifest and unmanifest realities
Cognition · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Limit (mathematics · Linguistic relativity · Linguistics · Perception · Sociology · Theory of relativity · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language
Different Bodies, Different Minds
"How We Know"
Language, Thought, and Reality
Directions in sociolinguistics
A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning
Cultural Models in Language and Thought
Developments in Polynesian Ethnology
Human Motives and Cultural Models
Journey to the ‘new normal’ and beyond
Disentangling
Tikopia Ritual and Belief
Sharing time
Transferable communicative routines
Colonizing Hawai'i
Disentangling
"Rethinking "Mana
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2012 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |