The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction: The body eclectic 1
5. Section A: Historical roots
6. We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism 17
7. Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's ecology of agency 55
8. From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics 85
9. Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive science perspective 129
10. Section B: Body and mind
11. Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces 167
12. From pre-representational cognition to language 197
13. Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes 241
14. Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience 271
15. Section C: Body, language and culture
16. Embodiment, language, and mimesis 297
17. The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment 339
18. On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature 379
19. Embodiment and self-organization of human categories: A case study for speech 411
20. Communication as situated, embodied practice 431
21. Backmatter 457