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1 - Embodiment in Metaphor and (Not?) in Bilingual Language
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- By Albert Katz, University of Western Ontario;, Andrea Bowes, St. Thomas University
- Edited by Roberto R. Heredia, Texas A & M University, Anna B. Cieślicka, Texas A & M University
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- Bilingual Figurative Language Processing
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- 05 February 2015
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- 26 January 2015, pp 3-27
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Abstract
In this chapter we look at the role that sensory motor activation plays in the understanding of figurative and bilingual language. The chapter is divided into three basic parts. First we examine what is known about the evolution of human language, with reference to figurative and bilingual language activities, emphasizing the emerging conceptualization that sensory-motor brain areas have played a vital role. In the next section we examine how this emerging conceptualization that language might be embodied has been translated into our understanding of online comprehension tasks in general and, increasingly, in grounding our understanding of figurative language. The last section examines how the notion of embodied cognition has been viewed in our understanding of bilingual language, noting the near absence of a relevant literature. We conclude by indicating some aspects of the archival bilingual processing literature that could benefit from taking an embodied perspective.
Keywords: bilingual embodiment, embodied cognition, figurative language, language evolution, metaphor processing
The classic approach in both the study of bilingualism and of figurative language has taken an amodal computational perspective. From this perspective, these models have been based on the assumption that the basic representational aspects of language are tied to symbols, which themselves are not tied to direct experience with the environments in which they have developed and in which they are expressed. In contrast, starting about a decade or so ago, an alternative approach has emerged in which language comprehension is directly and inextricably tied to a relationship between bodily experiences and language.
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- By Gregory H. Adkisson, Ozan Akça, Nawar Al-Rawas, John T. Anderson, Richard M. Bednarski, Francesca Bernabè, David G. Bjoraker, Lluis Blanch, Stephan H. Böhm, Edwin A. Bowe, Philip G. Boysen, Justin C. Cahill, Ira M. Cheifetz, David C. Cone, Nancy Craig, Daniel P. Davis, John B. Downs, Ronald Dueck, Jay L. Falk, Roger Fletcher, Michael A. Frakes, Andrea Gabrielli, Thomas J. Gallagher, Geoff Gilmartin, J. S. Gravenstein, Antonino Gullo, Donna Hamel, John W. Huang, Amy V. Isenberg, Michael B. Jaffe, Michael C. K. Khoo, Robert R. Kirby, E. F. Klein, A. Joseph Layon, Umberto Lucangelo, Emilio Maldonado, Paul E. Marik, Alicia E. Meuret, Timothy E. Morey, William Muir, Joseph A. Orr, Mehmet S. Ozcan, Lucía Isabel Passoni, David A. Paulus, Yong G. Peng, Carl W. Peters, George A. Ralls, Adriana G. Scandurra, Peter W. Scherer, Gerd Schmalisch, Adam Seiver, Salvatore Silvestri, Bob Smalhout, Fernando Suarez-Sipmann, Daniel E. Supkis, John Thompson, Patrick Troy, Jonathon D. Truwit, Gerardo Tusman, Joseph Varon, Ajeet G. Vinayak, Kevin R. Ward, Marvin A. Wayne, Charles Weissman, Dafna Willner, Kai Zhao, Christian C. Zuver
- Edited by J. S. Gravenstein, University of Florida, Michael B. Jaffe, Nikolaus Gravenstein, University of Florida, David A. Paulus, University of Florida
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- Capnography
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- 05 August 2011
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- 17 March 2011, pp ix-xii
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