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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300612403321

Titolo

Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology / / edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, Jodi L. Sandford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-91277-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 215 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Collana

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, , 2192-6255 ; ; 42

Disciplina

149.94

410.1

Soggetti

Language and languages—Philosophy

Cognitive grammar

Cognitive psychology

Philosophy of Language

Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.