Frank / Dirven / Ziemke Sociocultural Situatedness

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019911-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35.2, 444 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it.Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought. The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language. In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Scholars and Students in Linguistics (especially Cog

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Roslyn M.

Dirven, René

Ziemke, Tom

Bernárdez, Enrique

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;Introduction: Sociocultural situatedness;15
4;An interview with Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer: From neurons to sociocultural situatedness;35
5;Beyond the body: Towards a full embodied semiosis;67
6;Properties of cultural embodiment: Lessons from the anthropology of the body;91
7;Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language;123
8;Collective cognition and individual activity: Variation, language and culture;151
9;Entangled biological, cultural and linguistic origins of the war on invasive species;183
10;In search of development;211
11;The language-organism-species analogy: A complex adaptive systems approach to shifting perspectives on “language”;229
12;Toward a socially situated, functionally embodied lexical semantics: The case of (all) over;279
13;The embodiment of Europe: How do metaphors evolve?;315
14;Sociocultural situatedness of terminology in the life sciences: The history of splicing;341
15;Discourse metaphors;377
16;The relationship between metaphor, body andculture;401
17;Idealized cultural models: The group as a variable in the development of cognitive schemata;423
18;Backmatter;447

Über Autor(innen)

Roslyn M. Frank, University of Iowa, USA; René Dirven, University of Duisburg, Germany; Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden; Enrique Bernárdez, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.