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Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching
Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer
[Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1] 2023
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Special issue articles

Using the body to activate the brain

Research trends and issues

| University of Turin
| Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Article outline
  • Embodied cognition and educational research
  • Where Cognitive Linguistics meets Embodied Cognition
  • The present special section
  • References


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Published online: 31 January 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00124.del
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