nam a22 c 4500 bct.34/85008662 nljbp 250625020618.6 cr ||||||||||| 241216s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011029013 9789027284150 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P37.4 401/.9 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Distributed Language Edited by Stephen J. Cowley Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (ix, 220 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamins Current Topics 1874-0081 34 Includes bibliographical references. Distributed language / Stephen J. Cowley -- The role of anticipation in reading / Timo Järvilehto, Veli-Matti Nurkkala and Kyösti Koskela -- The experiential basis of speech and writing as different cognitive domains / Alexander Kravchenko -- Insightful thinking / Evridiki Fioratou and Stephen J. Cowley -- Actualizing semiotic affordances in a material world / Kristian Tylén, Johanne Stege Bjørndahl and Ethan Weed -- Languaging in Shakespeare's theatre / Evelyn Tribble -- Semiotic cognition and the logic of culture / Barend van Heusden -- Ecological pragmatics / Bert H. Hodges -- Symbols as constraints / Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi -- Beyond mind / Sune Vork Steffensen The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go about their lives. Distributed Language pursues this perspective both theoretically and in relation to empirical work. Empirically, it reports studies on the anticipatory dynamics of reading, its socio-cognitive consequences, Shakespearean theatre, what images evoke (in brain and word), and solving insight problems. Theoretically, the volume challenges linguistic autonomy from overlapping theoretical positions. First, it is argued that language exploits a species specific form of semiotic cognition. Second, it is suggested that the central function of language lies in realizing values that derive from our ecosystemic existence. Third, this is ascribed to how cultural and biological symbols co-regulate the dynamics that shape human activity. Fourth, it is argued that language, far from being organism-centred, gives us an extended ecology in which our co-ordination is saturated by values and norms that are derived from our sociocultural environment. The contributions to this volume expand on those originally published in Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009). Provided by publisher. Cognition and language Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Semiotics Cowley, Stephen J. editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027202536 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.34 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284150