The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind
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.
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