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UNINA9910811956003321 |
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Titolo |
Distributed language / / edited by Stephen J. Cowley |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-31473-8 |
9786613314734 |
90-272-8415-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Collana |
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Benjamins current topics ; ; v. 34 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psycholinguistics |
Language acquisition |
Language and culture |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Distributed Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; About the Authors; Distributed language; The role of anticipation in reading; The experiential basis of speech and writing as different cognitive domains; Insightful thinking; Actualizing semiotic affordances in a material world; Languaging in Shakespeare's theatre; Semiotic cognition and the logic of culture; Ecological pragmatics; Symbols as constraints; Beyond mind; Subject Index; Name Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially 'symbolic', not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go a |
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