Browsing by Subject "Embodiment"

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    Adding and subtracting by hand: Metaphorical representations of arithmetic in spontaneous co-speech gestures
    Alcaraz Carrion, D.; Alibali, M. W.; Valenzuela Manzanares, J.; Filología Inglesa
    This study investigated the spontaneous co-speech gestures produced by speakers who were talking about the concepts of addition and subtraction in a television news setting. We performed a linguistic and co-speech gesture analysis of expressions related to the concepts of addition (N plus N, addition, add) and subtraction (Nminus N, subtraction, subtract). First, we compared the linguistic frequency of these structures across several corpora. Second, we performed a multimodal gesture analysis, drawing data from a television news repository. We analyzed 423 co-speech gestures (169 for subtraction and 254 for addition) in terms of their axis (e.g., lateral, sagittal) and their direction (e.g., leftwards, away from their body). Third, we examined the semantic properties of the direct object that was added or subtracted. There were two main findings. First, low-frequency linguistic expressions were more likely to be accompanied by co-speech gestures. Second, most gestures about addition and subtraction were produced along the lateral or sagittal axes. When people spoke about addition, they tended to produce lateral, rightwards movements or movements away from the body. When people spoke about subtraction, they tended to produce lateral, leftwards movements or movements towards the body. This co-speech gesture data provides evidence that people activate two different metaphors for arithmetic in spontaneous behavior: ARITHMETIC IS MOTION ALONG A PATH and ARITHMETIC IS COLLECTING OBJECTS.
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    La base corpórea de nuestros estados mentales: corporeidad basal y relacional
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2025) Castro, Rafa; Sin departamento asociado
    En el presente estudio proponemos distinguir dos teorías corpóreas dentro de la enfoque cognitivo de la metáfora: la corporeidad basal y relacional. La corporeidad basal es una teoría que trabaja con lo que la teoría cognitiva de la metáfora ha denominado “base corpórea”. La base corpórea, compuesta por las imágenes esquema y las metáforas primarias, es el conjunto de estados mentales prácticamente universales cuyo origen se debe a una relación directa con la experiencia corpórea. Al contrario, la corporeidad relacional pretende elucidar los mecanismos de composición y proyección que aseguran una cadena causal desde la base corpórea hasta el resto de estados mentales. Asimismo, examinaremos con mayor detalle ambas teorías mediante el análisis de la base corpórea, noción crucial para el desarrollo de la corporeidad basal y relacional.
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    From Kepler to Gibson
    (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2017-04-13) Raja Galián, Vicente; Biener, Zvi; Chemero, Anthony; Filosofía
    We will argue that the idea of embodiment and the strategies for carrying out embodied approaches are some of the most prevalent and interdisciplinary legacies of early modern science. The idea of embodiment is simple: to explain the behavior of bodies, we must understand them as unified wholes in their environments. Embodied approaches eschew explanations in terms of qualitative descriptions of the intrinsic properties of bodies and promote explanation in terms of the interaction between bodies. This idea can be found in Kepler’s optics, Descartes’s physics, and Newton’s physico-mathematics. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems is the culmination of this centuries-long embodiment movement which can be traced back to the seventeenth century.
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    On defining image schemas
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), ) Mandler, Jean; Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal; Filología Inglesa
    In this theoretical paper we propose three diff erent kinds of cognitive structure that have not been diff erentiated in the psychological and cognitive linguistic literatures. They are spatial primitives , image schemas , and schematic integrations . Spatial primitives are the fi rst conceptual building blocks formed in infancy, image schemas are simple spatial stories built from them, and schematic integrations use the fi rst two types to build concepts that include non-spatial elements, such as force and emotion. These diff erent kinds of structure have all come under the umbrella term of ‘image schemas’. However, they diff er in their content, developmental origin, imageability, and role in meaning construction in language and in thought. The present paper indicates how preverbal conceptualization needs to be taken into account for a complete understanding of image schemas and their uses. It provides examples to illustrate this infl uence, the most important of these being the primacy of imageable spatial information.
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    El problema de la causalidad: metáfora conceptual, significados corporizados, conocimiento de mundo y procesamiento psicolingüístico
    (2018-02-27) Mariel Zunino, Gabriela
    Este trabajo intenta introducir algunas cuestiones en relación con el problema de la causalidad como concepto básico de la cognición humana y como relación estructurante de los discursos. (...)