{"product_id":"linguistic-bodies-isbn-9780262547864","title":"Linguistic Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinguistic Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding and deepening enactive theory, they offer a constitutive account of language and the co-emergent phenomena of personhood, reflexivity, social normativity, and ideality. Language, they argue, is not something we add to a range of existing cognitive capacities but a new way of being embodied. Each of us is a linguistic body in a community of other linguistic bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book describes three distinct yet entangled kinds of human embodiment, organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective; it traces the emergence of linguistic sensitivities and introduces the novel concept of linguistic bodies; and it explores the implications of living as linguistic bodies in perpetual becoming, applying the concept of linguistic bodies to questions of language acquisition, parenting, autism, grammar, symbol, narrative, and gesture, and to such ethical concerns as microaggression, institutional speech, and pedagogy.Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e1 Making Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI Bodies 11\u003cbr\u003e2 Living Bodies 13\u003cbr\u003e3 Enacted Bodies 43\u003cbr\u003e4 Intersubjective Bodies 61\u003cbr\u003eII Linguistic Bodies 103\u003cbr\u003e6 Dialectics: A Tool for Enactivists 105\u003cbr\u003e7 From Participatory Sense-Making... 131\u003cbr\u003e8 ...to Linguistic Bodies 165\u003cbr\u003eIII Living as Linguistic Bodies 213\u003cbr\u003e9 Becoming Linguistic Bodies 215\u003cbr\u003e10 Autistic Linguistic Bodies 261\u003cbr\u003e11 Enacting Language \"as We Know It\" 279\u003cbr\u003e12 Making Better Sense 309\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 329\u003cbr\u003eNotes 335\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 353\u003cbr\u003eIndex 399Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.\u003cbr\u003eElena Clare Cuffari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Worcester State University.\u003cbr\u003eHanne De Jaegher is Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304837566693,"sku":"NP9780262547864","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547864.jpg?v=1767731494","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/linguistic-bodies-isbn-9780262547864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}