Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology

Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, Jodi L. Sandford (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 215 Seiten

2019 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-08210-9 (ISBN)

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The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception. The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and linguistic perspectives on embodiment and body perception, highlighting the core mechanisms humans employ to acquire knowledge of reality. These processes are based on sensory experience and interaction through communication.

The Language of Senses: a Window onto the World.- Our Biological Past in Our Modern Verbal World.- Embodied Semantics and the Mirror Neurons: Past Research and Some Proposals for the Future.- What is not Said: Metaphor and the Deflationary Account.- Do Metaphors Mean or Point? Davidson's Hypothesis Revisited.- A Neuroimaging Investigation into Figurative Language and Aesthetic Perception.- A Neuroimaging Investigation into Figurative Language and Aesthetic Perception.- Ception and the Discrepancy between Vision and Language.- Methodological Approaches and Semantic Construals of the SEEING Domain in English.- Metaphors for Musical Motion: Beyond TIME IS MOTION.- Defining Taste in English Informant Categorization.- The Linguistic Expression of Smells: from Lack to Abundance?.- Synaesthesia and Other Figures: What the Senses Tell us about Figurative Language.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Zusatzinfo	XV, 215 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	361 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Analysis of Verbs of Perception • Complexity of Taste Perception • Conceptual Construals • Conceptualization of Music • Conceptual Metaphors • Embodied Approaches to Language • Explicit Communication • Fictive Motion Expressions • Grammatical Metaphors • indirect communication • Linguistic Conceptualization of Color • meaning construction • Mechanisms of Language Comprehension • Metaphorical Meaning • Metaphtonymy • Mirror Neurons in Language Acquisition • Semantics of Action • Sensory Associations in Synaesthesia • Spatial Metaphors • Verbal Expression of the Senses
ISBN-10	3-030-08210-5 / 3030082105
ISBN-13	978-3-030-08210-9 / 9783030082109
Zustand	Neuware