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Summa, Michela, Astrid Kolter and Silva H. Ladewig. 2012. Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech. An interdisciplinary case study. In Muller, Cornelia, Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs and Michela Summa, eds. Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement. (Advances in Consciousness Research 84). John Benjamins. pp. 201–226.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

The present study is an empirical documentation of body memory and the transition from implicit to explicit memory from the cognitive-linguistic, movement analytic, and philosophical perspectives in a therapeutic application. The transition from implicit memory to explicit memory is described using the concept of activated metaphoricity. It is argued that body movements executed in the absence of speech may provide the experiential source for multimodal metaphors. Tracing these bodily movements from speechless contexts to contexts encompassing speech and body movement allows for the empirical documentation of the transition from implicit body memory to explicit verbalized memory. In this paper, these theoretical claims are substantiated from the results of an interdisciplinary case study in a dance/movement therapy context.