"7625","Reenactment: An embodied cognition approach to meaning and linguistic content","A central finding in experimental research identified with Embodied Cognition (EC) is that understanding actions involves their embodied simulation, i.e. executing some processes involved in performing these actions. Extending these findings, I argue that reenactment – the overt embodied simulation of actions and practices, including especially communicative actions and practices, within utterances – makes it possible to forge an integrated EC-based account of linguistic meaning. In particular, I argue: (a) that remote entities can be referred to by reenacting actions performed with them; (b) that the use of grammatical constructions can be conceived of as the reenactment of linguistic action routines; (c) that complex enunciational structures (reported speech, irony, etc.) involve a separate level of reenactment, on which characters are presented as interacting with one another within the utterance; (d) that the segmentation of long utterances into shorter units involves the reenactment of brief audience interventions between units; and (e) that the overall meaning of an utterance can be stated in reenactment terms. The notion of reenactment provides a conceptual framework for accounting for aspects of language that are usually thought to be outside the reach of EC in an EC framework, thus supporting a view of meaning and linguistic content as thoroughly grounded in action and interaction.","http://cogprints.org/7625/","Sandler, Dr. Sergeiy","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Sandler, Dr. Sergeiy</span>     (2011)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/7625/\"><em>Reenactment: An embodied cognition approach to meaning and linguistic content.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]         (In Press)   ","sergeiys@gmail.com","2011-03-15"