Sociocultural Situatedness : Volume 2.

Sociocultural Situatedness : Volume 2.

The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interac...

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Main Author: Frank, Roslyn M.
Other Authors: Dirven, Ren, Ziemke, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research, v. 35.2.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Mind and body.
Semiotics.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Mind and body
Semiotics
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Sociocultural situatedness
  • Section A: The dynamics of cultural categorization
  • An interview with Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer: From neurons to sociocultural situatedness
  • Beyond the body: Towards a full embodied semiosis
  • Properties of cultural embodiment: Lessons from the anthropology of the body
  • Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language
  • Collective cognition and individual activity: Variation, language and culture
  • Section B: The sociocultural situatedness of scientific discourse
  • Entangled biological, cultural and linguistic origins of the war on invasive species
  • In search of development
  • The language-organism-species analogy: A complex adaptive systems approach to shifting perspectives on languageŽ
  • Section C: Sociocultural situatedness in lexical and usage-based approaches to metaphor
  • Toward a socially situated, functionally embodied lexical semantics: The case of (all) over
  • The embodiment of Europe: How do metaphors evolve?
  • Sociocultural situatedness of terminology in the life sciences: The history of splicing
  • Section D: Exploring the sociocultural situatedness of language and cognition
  • Discourse metaphors
  • The relationship between metaphor, body andculture
  • Idealized cultural models: The group as a variable in the development of cognitive schemata
  • Backmatter

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