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Embodied Cognition & Language (It begins with basic cognitive…
Embodied Cognition & Language
cognition is based on
Knowledge that comes from the body
Other domains are mapped onto our embodied knowledge
using a combination of topographic maps containing
conceptual metaphor
image schemas
It begins with basic cognitive linguistics
frames
conceptual metaphors
embodied schemas
Blends
Metonymy
Constructions
Lakoff presents in general form
a theory of the neural circuitry needed to characterize these phenomena in detail
Using empirical examples from basic experiments,
The mind arises from
the nature of our brains bodies
bodily experiences
For an adequate understanding of human cognition and language, it is necessary
semantics
pragmatics
syntax
value
You cannot simply peel off a theory of conceptual metaphor from its grounding in embodied meaning and thought.
You cannot give an adequate account of conceptual metaphor and other imaginative structures of understanding without recognizing some form of embodied realism.