Sensory perceptions in language, embodiment and epistemology. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, Jodi L. Sandford, editors.
• Editors: Baicchi, Annalisa; Digonnet, Rémi; Sandford, Jodi L
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Introduction; Sec1; Language: A True Account of the Senses?; Sensation, Perception, Ception, Representation; Sensory Perceptions and Its Representation; Theoretical Perspective; 1 Our Biological Mind in the Modern Verbal World; 1 Introduction; 2 Our Savanna Legacy; 3 What Kind of Mind Has Evolution Given Us?; 4 Our Ecological Minds and Complex Social Decisions; 4.1 Weapons; 4.2 Cooking; 4.3 Domestication of Plants, and Animals; 4.4 New Sources of Energy; 4.5 Social Cooperation; 5 Sensory Systems and Environmental Problem-Solving; 5.1 Umwelt 5.2 Color5.3 Color and Emotions; 6 The Emergence of Language; 7 Concluding Remarks; References; 2 Embodied Semantics and the Mirror Neurons: Past Research and Some Proposals for the Future; 1 Introduction; 2 The Concept of "Body"; 3 The Mirror Neuron System and Neural Simulation; 4 Embodied Semantics and Mirror Neurons; 5 Comprehension or Imagery?; 6 Some Proposals for Further Research; 7 Conclusion; References; 3 What is not Said: Metaphor and the Deflationary Account; 1 Metaphor: Two Competing Theories; 2 Some Examples of Metaphor; 3 The Deflationary Account of Metaphor and the 'Felt Gap' 3.1 'Seeing-as'4 Aspects of a Theory of Metaphor; References; 4 Do Metaphors Mean or Point? Davidson's Hypothesis Revisited; 1 Introduction; 2 Revisiting the Basic Assumptions of the Cognitive Approach; 3 Revisiting Davidson's Rebutted Hypothesis; 4 Revisiting the Use of a Metaphor; 5 Conclusion; References; Applied Perspective; 5 A Neuroimaging Investigation into Figurative Language and Aesthetic Perception; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Emotional Engagement; 1.2 The Present Study; 1.3 Neural Correlates of Aesthetic Perception; 2 Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Materials; 2.3 Procedure 2.4 Data Analysis3 Results; 3.1 Ratings of Beauty and Familiarity; 3.2 Brain Imaging Results: Beauty; 3.3 Brain Imaging Results: Familiarity; 4 Discussion; 4.1 Somatosensory Representations; 4.2 Emotional Engagement; 5 Conclusions; References; 6 Ception and the Discrepancy Between Vision and Language; 1 Introduction; 2 Ception: From Perception to Cognition; 3 General Fictivity and Embodiment; 3.1 The Embodied Cognition Theory; 4 Fictive Motion Events in Descriptive Discourse; 4.1 External Constraints; 4.2 Internal Constraints; 5 Concluding Observations; References 7 Methodological Approaches and Semantic Construal of the Seeing Domain in English1 Introduction; 2 Two Experimental Protocols; 2.1 Paradigm 1-Implicit Association Test; 2.2 Paradigm 2-Explicit; 3 Discussion; 3.1 Underlying Conceptualization; 4 Conclusions; References; 8 Metaphors for Musical Motion-Beyond Time Is Motion; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Its Applications to Music; 3 Method; 4 Results; 4.1 Metaphorical Expressions at the Linguistic Level; 4.2 Conceptual Source Domains; 4.3 Motion-in-Space Mappings; 5 Discussion: Musical Motion Beyond Time Is Motion
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 121.3; Philosophy; Sense (Philosophy); Senses and sensation; Perception; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; Perception; Sense (Philosophy); Senses and sensation; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Cognitive Linguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Psychology -- Cognitive Psychology; Linguistics; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Linguistics -- Philosophy; Cognitive grammar; Consciousness; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy of language; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319912776; 3319912771
• Related ISBNs: 9783319912769; 3319912763
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2018).
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