Sensory Motor Concepts in Language and Cognition

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sensory Motor Concepts – at the Crossroad between Language & Cognition -- SENSORY-MOTOR CONCEPTS AND LANGUAGE -- Experimental and Corpus Studies on Embodied Metaphoric Meaning -- Inferential Communication in the Embodied Language Paradigm -- Traces of Embodiment in Chinese Character Formation A Frame Approach to the Interaction of Writing, Speaking, and Meaning -- Motion and Emotion. The application of sensory-motor concepts to the representation of emotion in literature -- THE DIVERSITY OF SENSORY-MOTOR CONCEPTS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS -- Sensory-Motor Concepts and Metaphor in Usage -- Dynamics in the Brain and Dynamic Frame Theory for Action Verbs -- The place of Place (according to spatial case) -- Force Change Schemas and Excessive Actions: How High-Level Cognitive Operations Constrain Aspect in Idiomatic Constructions -- SENSORY-MOTOR CONCEPTS AND PERCEPTION -- The Sensory Nature of Knowledge -- Towards Grounding Compositional Concept Structures in Self-organizing Neural Encodings -- Grounding Cognition: The Role of Language in Thinking -- Postface