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Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism
Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh
Conceptual metaphor challenges foundational assumptions in Western philosophy.
Additional empirical evidence from linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and anthropology supports and extends the claims about conceptual metaphor.
Embodied meaning, shaped by sensorimotor experience and imaginative mechanisms, influences abstract conceptualization and reasoning.
Embodied realism and conceptual metaphor
Embodied realism is essential for understanding syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and value in human cognition and language
The existence of primary conceptual metaphors is grounded in coactive experiences and neural connections.
Rejecting embodied realism based on philosophical misinterpretations, particularly by Rakova.
Embodied realism vs. Rakova's critique
Rakova misunderstands embodied realism as extreme empiricism.
Embodied realism emphasizes the interplay of organism-environment interactions in shaping meaning
Rakova's misrepresentations stem from philosophical frames from Anglo-American philosophy.
Representation and embodied realism
Embodied realism rejects classical notions of representation.
Image schemas are neural structures in the sensorimotor system, not abstract representations
Meaning arises from ongoing interactions between the organism and the environment.
Cultural variation and embodied realism
Embodied realism allows for shared image schemas but also accommodates cultural variation.
Cross-linguistic evidence supports the idea that cultural variations can coexist with universal embodied structures
Embodied realism navigates between classical relativism and anti-relativism based on empirical evidence.
Metaphorical mapping
The mind-as-body system is mapped through various metaphors.
Submapping includes the metaphor that "thinking is perceiving."
Rakova`s suggestions
Rakova suggests an abstractionist view, emphasizing a higher generality without the need for newborns to acquire connections between physical and non-physical.
Learning through bodily interactions provides the basis for abstract reasoning and is evolutionarily economical.
denies the role of sensorimotor experience in grounding logic, while the authors assert that bodily experiences provide the basis for the logic of abstract thought
denies the constitutive role of conceptual metaphor in scientific theory, claiming it hinders identifying misleading or erroneous scientific reasoning.
Empirical basis in Cognitive Linguistics
The importance of grounding cognitive linguistics in empirical studies is emphasized
Cognitive scientists need to recognize and subject philosophical assumptions to empirical scrutiny for a more accurate understanding of mind, thought, and language.
Philosophical assumptions and Cognitive Science
Cognitive scientists must be aware of philosophical assumptions conflicting with empirical research.
Embodied realism is presented as an empirically responsible philosophy arising from cognitive linguistics' fundamental empirical results.