Sensuous Cognition (eBook)

Explorations into Human Sentience: Imagination, (E)motion and Perception

Rosario Caballero, Javier E. Díaz Vera (Herausgeber)

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2013
311 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110300772 (ISBN)

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The main topic discussed throughout the volume is the indissoluble relationship between body, mind and culture. By emphasizing the sensuous quality of human cognition, i.e. what Howes (2003: XVII) calls 'the relation of the verbal to other 'nonverbal' (or sensual) registers of communication', the contributions in this book revisit the notion of embodiment by paying particular attention to its sensuous dimension without losing sight of its cultural and cognitive components.

Rosario Caballero and Javier E. Díaz-Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.

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Rosario Caballeroand Javier E. Díaz-Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.

Inhalt

1 Unifying the body, mind and culture 9
References 13
Part I: The mind and the body 15
2 Different bodies, different minds: The body-specificity of language and thought 17
Introduction 17
Body-specificity of action language and motor imagery 18
Imagined actions 19
Motor action and verb meaning 19
Body-specificity of emotion 20
Choosing sides 20
How using your hands can change your mind 21
Motivation and motor action 23
Conclusions and future directions 23
Acknowledgments 24
References 24
3 Body and mind in Euskera: Contrasting dialogic and monologic subjectivities 27
Introduction: Theoretical considerations 27
The concept of self 34
The Basque concept gogo 36
The construal of two common physical sensations: hunger and sleepiness 40
Further evidence of dialogic subjectivity 51
Conclusions 54
References 55
4 The body in anatomy: Looking at head for the mind-body link in Chinese 61
Introduction 61
A look at head through a lexical scan 63
A look at “head” through a decompositional analysis — 74
Conclusions 78
Acknowledgments 79
References 79
Part II: Cognition and perception 83
5 Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres 85
Introduction 85
Perceptual landscapes in architectural reviews 87
Perceptual landscapes in wine reviews — 100
The perceptual landscapes of architecture and wine in summary 111
Acknowledgments 113
References 113
6 The power of the senses and the role of culture in metaphor and language 117
Introduction 117
Sense perception and conceptual metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics 118
Some caveats: Motivation, entrenchment, and distribution 122
Conclusions 136
Acknowledgments 137
References 138
7 Vision and conceptualization in ancient Egyptian art 143
Introduction 143
Principles of ancient Egyptian art 144
Evaluations of the principles of ancient Egyptian art 148
Perspectives from the philosophy of perception 151
The conceptual nature of ancient Egyptian art 158
Mind, body and vision: Remarks by way of conclusion 170
References 172
8 One man’s cheese is another man’s music: Synaesthesia and the bridging of cultural differences in the language of sensory perception 177
Introduction 177
Arguing with the senses 179
One rat’s cheese is another rat’s fireworks 186
Banquets of innocence and experience 191
Conclusion 197
Acknowledgements 197
References 198
Part III: Imagination and (e)motion 201
9 Embodied emotions in medieval English language and visual arts 203
Introduction 203
Methodology and data 205
The embodiment of fear expressions in Old English 206
The embodiment of fear in the Bayeaux Tapestry 213
Interpreting pictorial signals of fear 221
Results and discussion 222
References 225
10 Moving across metaphorical space over developmental time 229
Introduction 229
How robust is the structuring of abstracts concepts in terms of spatial motion? 231
How early do children think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of spatial motion? 236
What explains developmental changes in children’s metaphorical abilities? 245
Discussion 251
References 254
11 Conceptualisations of ruh ‘spirit/soul’ and jesm ‘body’ in Persian: A Sufi perspective 259
Introduction 259
Jesm and ruh in Persian 260
Conceptualizations of the body in Sufism 261
Conceptualizations of the Sufi spiritual path 263
Neoplatonism and Sufism 268
Concluding remarks 270
References 271
12 Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends 273
The power of material anchors in performativity 273
Spatial alignment with the universe 279
Structural blends and alignments in the buildings 287
Moving through sacred spaces 290
Conclusions 296
Acknowledgments 297
References 298
13 Postscript to Sensuous Cognition: The language of the senses 301
References 307
Subject Index 309

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
• Reihe/Serie: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Cognition • Crossmodality • Culture • Empfindungsvermögen • Kognitive Linguistik • Metaphern • Metaphor • Sensorium and Sentience
• ISBN-13: 9783110300772 / 9783110300772